RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup expiry of rman backups with infinite retentionperiod

2006-03-23 Thread Peter.Hitchman 



Hi,
Thanks, but I have done the rman "change ... delete 
..." bit. What concerns me is that NB is not removing the backup images from 
tape.

Regards

Pete

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  Netbackup expiry of rman backups with infinite 
  retentionperiodIs this 
  the command ur after? The change 
  ... delete command removes references to a backup piece, datafile copy, or 
  archivelog from the control file and recovery catalog. It physically deletes 
  the file. This command works with or without a recovery catalog. 
  
  


  
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expiry of rman backups with infinite retention 
  periodHi,I have recently set-up some Oracle rman backups with Netbackup 
  4.5 on Solaris.The retention period in the policy is set to infinite for 
  both the automatic and application backup schedules. I wanted to check that 
  Netbackup would clean up the backups when I obsolete them in rman. But having 
  done the obsolete in rman I have found that Netbackup has not removed the 
  backup images from the tapes, even though they are gone from the rman catalog. 
  I tried running "bpimage -cleanup -client name" but the bpdbm log 
  showed that nothing was removed.There was an oddity with the Netbackup 
  configuration on the client, when the original backup was made, the bp.conf 
  contained the wrong client name. Could this be causing a problem, now that the 
  client name has been changed?Am I on the wrong track here? According 
  to the manual when rman deletes a backup-piece Netbackup should get rid of it 
  regardless of the retention period. Does anyone know of a way I can sort this 
  out, so that when rman deletes the backup, Netbackup does as 
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RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup expiry of rman backups with infinite retentionperiod

2006-03-23 Thread andrew . x . smith 

I don't have anywhere to test this, but my understanding is that this should do what ur after. Can u test on test box (as u have some issues with ur client name or something)?







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Hi,
Thanks, but I have done the rman change ... delete ... bit. What concerns me is that NB is not removing the backup images from tape.

Regards

Pete
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Is this the command ur after? 

The change ... delete command removes references to a backup piece, datafile copy, or archivelog from the control file and recovery catalog. It physically deletes the file. This command works with or without a recovery catalog. 







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Hi,
I have recently set-up some Oracle rman backups with Netbackup 4.5 on Solaris.
The retention period in the policy is set to infinite for both the automatic and application backup schedules. I wanted to check that Netbackup would clean up the backups when I obsolete them in rman. But having done the obsolete in rman I have found that Netbackup has not removed the backup images from the tapes, even though they are gone from the rman catalog. I tried running bpimage -cleanup -client name but the bpdbm log showed that nothing was removed.

There was an oddity with the Netbackup configuration on the client, when the original backup was made, the bp.conf contained the wrong client name. Could this be causing a problem, now that the client name has been changed?

Am I on the wrong track here? According to the manual when rman deletes a backup-piece Netbackup should get rid of it regardless of the retention period. Does anyone know of a way I can sort this out, so that when rman deletes the backup, Netbackup does as well?

Thanks

Pete

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