Reclaim Space on NBU 5230 after Expiring Images

[Penchy]

We ran into Status 129 - Disk storage unit is full on NBU Appliance 5230 - 2.6.1.2

We Expired older images manually from Netbackup Console and we should be having around 30 TB Free space 

The cleanup ran fine but how much time would it take before i see the Reclaimed space on Appliance

Can it immediately list up the free space

Can we force garbage collection and old fragments to be removed rather than waiting for it to complete.

[Penchy]

Can we force garbage collection and old fragments to be removed rather than waiting for it to complete

[Will_Restore · Accepted solution]

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH180659

52xx Appliance

1. Expire images backed up to the disk pool via NetBackup
2. Check the Dedupe Storage queue folder. You should see lots of tlogs ready for processing
   ls -l /disk/queue/
3. Run CR queue processing
   /usr/openv/pdde/pdcr/bin/crcontrol --processqueue
4. Monitor processing progress by checking the storage log
   tail -f /disk/log/spoold/storaged.log
5. Run Garbage collection
   /usr/openv/pdde/pdcr/bin/crcollect -v -m +1,+2  (crcollect is found in NetBackup versions prior to 7.6)
6. Check the Dedupe Storage queue folder. If you see some tlogs for processing, repeat steps 3 through 5.
7. Check the "used" and "Space available within containers" values in the following command
   /usr/openv/pdde/pdcr/bin/crcontrol --dsstat
8. If dsstat showed a high value for "Space needs compaction", run compaction processing
   /usr/openv/pdde/pdcr/bin/crcontrol --compactstart

[Penchy]

Thanks Will