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October 16th, 2014 12:00
VMWare image backup retention
Hi All,
We're currently performing daily backups of all VM's within our vCenter. We've also assigned an advanced retention policy so that we retain 14 days, 0 weeks, 12 months, and 1 year worth of backups. Backups run fine, but when I went to restore a VM the other day I noticed that we still had backups from everyday through mid-May. This would seem to go against our retention policy of only retaining daily backups for 14 days, monthlies for 12 months, etc.. If I go to the Manage tab, I notice that each backup is being tagged as "DWMY" (and the expiration date for each backup is 1 year from the date of backup.. which would be correct for backups being tagged as yearly). I would expect it to tag Sunday's backup as the "DW", then the rest of the week as only "D", unless it was the start of a new month/year.
Has anyone else run into this in their environment? I can't see any obvious reason as to why it's tagging every VM backup as "DWMY". Note that I've confirmed that all other types of backups are being tagged as I would expect them to be. It seems that this backup is the only with this problem.
We were just upgraded to Avamar verrsion 7.0.2-47 (from an earlier release of 7.0.X), although this problem looks to have started before we were upgraded.
Any help or insight would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Josh
ionthegeek
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October 16th, 2014 12:00
This is a known issue in version 7.0.2-47. A hotfix is imminent. There is a previous thread that covers this topic here:
After upgrade to Avamar 7.0.2 all backup marked as monthly
jpanei
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October 16th, 2014 13:00
Ian,
Thanks for your quick response. I've just opened an SR for this and EMC support will be contacting me whenever the hotfix is published.
..Now if only there was a way to automatically remove those old backups that should have been expired!
Josh
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October 16th, 2014 13:00
My pleasure!
There is a script called "modify-snapups" that can be used to make bulk changes to backup expiration dates or perform bulk deletes. The script is not particularly intuitive so I would recommend you work with support if you wish to pursue this.