To Import Expired backup image

[NBU35]

Hi All

Is there any way to get Backup Image ID for SQL Backup & get it imported, which has expired 2 days back and was present on MSDP STU.

NBU Version 7.6.0.3

[NBU35]

I Got the Backup ID from All logs entries.

How to import it?

I Tried to execute 2nd phase of import directly, it has failed.

Do i need to perform 1st phase? If yes then what would be argument of -id parameter.

if MSDP is as follows.

[root@data]# pwd
/NBU/MSDP/data
[root@data]# ls -l
total 72
drwxr-x---. 2 root root 36864 Sep 12 12:20 0
drwxr-x---  2 root root 20480 Sep 14 12:20 1
drwxr-x---  2 root root 12288 Sep 15 00:29 2
drwxr-x---. 2 root root  4096 Sep 15 15:18 journal

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

You can only import expired backups from tape.

Disk images are deleted when they expire. 

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[mph999 · Accepted solution]

The id will be the media id, so something like @aaaab

nbdevquery -lisdv -U -stype PureDisk  will display what you have.

If the image is on disk, and has expired, TBH it has almost certainly been deleted from disk.  Unlike tape backups, expired images on disk are deleted pretty much immediately.