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April 3rd, 2012 04:00

how to delete the backup from the win2008 server completely ?

Hi,

For testing purpose, we need to delete the backup from the networker server so that everytime the backup is schedule its starts from the first.

Please advise.

Regards,

Cittarasu

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April 3rd, 2012 04:00

Hi Cittarasu,

If you have multiple savesets for a client and you want to delete those savesets one time without using scripts.

Firstly you will need to run the mminfo command to get the details of the savesets for this client, run the following command:

mminfo -avot -r "ssid" -q "client=CLIENTNAME"

Copy the output of the suspect save sets in an Microsoft Excel Sheet with the command on the first column and the SSID in the second column like the following example:

Command           SSID

nsrmm -d -S    2617625

nsrmm -d -S    3615675

nsrmm -d -S    5317721

Then copy the list from the Microsoft Excel and then paste it in the Command Line (cmd) of the backup server where the commands will be running one by one automatically. This will delete all the savesets for that client, But keep in mind that the deleted savesets cannot be retrieved, so make sure that you specify the correct clients that you would like to delete its all related savesets.

Also you can check the following Powerlink article:

https://solutions.emc.com/emcsolutionview.asp?id=esg59451

Hope that this what you would like to implement.

Thanks,

Ahmed Bahaa

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April 3rd, 2012 04:00

Hi Cittarasu,

I don't really understand the purpose of that tests, and why you should need to delete the backup, however you could for instance set a browse and retention policy to hours or to one day, and then label the media device manually, however there will be yet some entries in the MDB.

If what you need is to get rid of absolutely everything related with that client (savesets, data on tape/disk/index/client ID) then the procedure is a bit more complicated, but let me know is just deleting the saveset from media and media DB is enough and will provide you with the commands.

Thank you.

Carlos

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April 3rd, 2012 05:00

Thanks Ahmed !

Yes Carlos, we are evaluating the network to find out how fast the backup happens over a period of time with random wan characterstic. That's why this kind of weird testing, the backup data is for test purpose only.

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