What’s the version of avamar proxy version 5 or 6? Use below tool to clean up leftover snapshots as failed or cancelled backups will keep snapshots.

Download below script on Utility Node under /usr/local/avamar/bin

ftp://avamar_ftp:anonymous@ftp.avamar.com/software/scripts/snapJanitor.jar

Give the script execute permissions

chmod 775 snapJanitor.jar

Run below command as admin user. You can also output it to file.

java -jar snapJanitor.jar --ava

Thanks

Sameer Khan

Please note the script will delete snapshots of running backups if executed during vm image backups. So please follow below steps instead to run it before start of maintenance window.

1) Download from ftp://avamar_ftp:anonymous@ftp.avamar.com/software/scripts/snapJanitor.jar

snapJanitor.jar and LaunchSnapJanitor.sh

2) cp snapJanitor.jar /usr/local/avamar/bin/snapshotJanitor.jar (as root)

3) cp LaunchSnapJanitor.sh

/usr/local/avamar/etc/gsan-maint-scripts/maintenance/

4) chmod 755

/usr/local/avamar/etc/gsan-maint-scripts/maintenance/LaunchSnapJanitor.sh

This will run the script daily at the start of the maintenance window.

Run logs will be at:

/usr/local/avamar/var/log/snapshotJanitor

Old logs will need to be manually deleted.

Hi Sameer,

Thanks alot. I actually have been in contact with Avamar support asking for this script. I read about it on a blog somewhere. I was told by Avamar support that they didn't know anything about this script :-(

I'm running AVE v. 6.0 by the way

I will give it a try and get back to you

much appreciated

Thomas

Forgot to add path of other script.

ftp://avamar_ftp:anonymous@ftp.avamar.com/software/scripts/LaunchSnapJanitor.sh

Thanks

Sameer Khan

Hi Sameer,

I can see that the script is working but I did not solve my issues with VM image backups failing. I have created another post in the Avamar forum regarding the errors I see. Can you have a look and see if you know a solution to the problem?

here is the link

https://community.emc.com/message/577145#577145

I replied to your other thread. Thanks.