what happens to images of cancelled jobs?

[manatee]

NBU  7.5.0.5

i'm using an SLP of one week (on disk) and one month (on tape) retention. if any backup jobs were cancelled for whatever reason, what happens to the half-done images on disk?

do they can remove automatically?

or they get removed along with the garbage collection schedules?

[mph999]

On disk, they are removed.

[mph999]

If MSDP, I'll have to check ....

[revarooo]

All cancelled jobs have the images removed.

[DG-2005]

This, cancelled jobs are exactly that, cancelled, not to be relied on for restores.

Backup job complete to disk and cancelled during SLP? then you have the image on disk only.

[watsons · Accepted solution]

I think most of us assumed that your "cancelled backup" means the 1st SLP operation (backup to disk) has failed, so answer is "half-done" image will get removed.

But if the 1st SLP operation backup has completed successfully, and your 2nd SLP operation (assume duplication to tape) - duplication job has failed, you still have the backup image on disk, and it will be there forever until your duplication is completed successfully. (SLP feature to safeguard un-duplicated image)

If for some reason, after a week, your duplication is still not working and you do not want to have the image duplicated anymore - you can cancel the 2nd SLP operation for duplication, however that means you are going to lose the image on disk as well, because it only has a retention of 1 week. Cancelling the SLP operation puts the image back to its original retention period.

[mph999]

From the MSDP side, the image details are removed immediately from the mini catalog (PO), but the data fragments get cleaned up later during queue processing.

[manatee]

i'm not sure if i have MSDP but as per watsons, the disk image indeed is still there and the 2nd SLP operation keeps trying (i have "expire after copy" set in SLP) and that's more than a week now.

i guess i'll have to either get that 2nd SLP failure fixed or delete the disk image.