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DFM 5.2 Protection Manager backup retention issue

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Does anyone know why 'dfpm backup list' doesn't list all of the backups that are in the snapvault secondary volume that are listed with 'dfpm dataset snapshot list' ?

 

We discovered this when troubleshooting why snapshots older than the retention periods configured aren't getting deleted. I think that the two are related but I may be interpreting the output incorrectly.

 

Thanks,

Mark

 

Here's the information about the protection manager config and the command output I'm seeing:

 

I have a dataset with Primary and Backup nodes:

  • The Primary node has 19 volume root qtrees (/vol/volname/-)
  • The Backup node has a single volume

The protection policy uses a base policy of 'Remote backups only' i.e. Backup primary to secondary without local backups.

  • The Primary node has no local backup schedule configured
  • Primary data to Backup has a schedule of Daily @ 0400 Monday>Saturday, Weekly @ 0200 Sunday 
  • The Backup node has backup retention durations set to 6.0 Daily, 5.0 Weekly

 

 

>dfpm  dataset list

 

Id         Name                        Protection Policy           Provisioning Policy Application Policy          Storage Service

 

---------- --------------------------- --------------------------- ------------------- --------------------------- ---------------

 

104704     cc_snapvault_xen_shared     cc_snapvault_vol_xen_shared

 

 

 

 

 

>dfpm policy list

 

Id   Name                             Policy Type       Description

 

---- -------------------------------  ---------------   ----------------------------

 

104722 cc_snapvault_vol_xen_shared    Data Protection   Back up primary data to secondary without local backups

 

 

 

 

>dfpm policy node get cc_snapvault_vol_xen_shared

 

 

 

Node Id:                    1

 

Node Name:                  Primary data

 

Hourly Retention Count:     0

 

Hourly Retention Duration:  0

 

Daily Retention Count:      0

 

Daily Retention Duration:   0

 

Weekly Retention Count:     0

 

Weekly Retention Duration:  0

 

Monthly Retention Count:    0

 

Monthly Retention Duration: 0

 

Backup Script Path:

 

Backup Script Run As:

 

Failover Script Path:

 

Failover Script Run As:

 

Snapshot Schedule Id:       0

 

Snapshot Schedule Name:

 

Warning Lag Enabled:        No

 

Warning Lag Threshold:      129600

 

Error Lag Enabled:          No

 

Error Lag Threshold:        172800

 

 

 

Node Id:                    2

 

Node Name:                  Backup

 

Hourly Retention Count:     0

 

Hourly Retention Duration:  0

 

Daily Retention Count:      2

 

Daily Retention Duration:   518400 [equates to 6 days]

 

Weekly Retention Count:     2

 

Weekly Retention Duration:  3024000 [equates 35 days / 5 weeks]

 

Monthly Retention Count:    1

 

Monthly Retention Duration: 0

 

 

 

>dfpm backup list -m all 104704

 

Backup Id Backup Version        Retention Type Retention Duration (in seconds)   Availability Node Name            Description

 

Properties(Name=Value)

 

--------- --------------------- -------------- --------------------------------- ------------ -------------------- ------------

 

1214749 27 Sep 2014 04:00:06  daily          518400                            Full         Backup

 

1208432 20 Sep 2014 04:00:11  daily          518400                            Full         Backup

 

1182421 07 Sep 2014 02:00:05  weekly         3024000                           Full         Backup

 

1167412 31 Aug 2014 02:00:10  weekly         3024000                           Full         Backup

 

 

 

 

 

>dfpm dataset snapshot list cc_snapvault_xen_shared

 

Id   Name            Unique Id    Volume          Timestamp            Versioned  Dependencies    % of Total Blocks

 

---- --------------- ------------ --------------- -------------------- ---------- --------------- ----------

 

2171664583 2014-08-31_0200+0100_weekly_cc_snapvault_xen_shared_sv-dest-filer_vol_xen_shared_.-.rcstxen01_taxtech.RCSTXEN02.rcstxen0 1409455672   sv-dest-filer:/vol_xen_shared 31 Aug 2014 04:27:52 Yes        None            8%  (1%)

 

2182126863 2014-09-07_0200+0100_weekly_cc_snapvault_xen_shared_sv-dest-filer_vol_xen_shared_.-.rcstxen01_taxtech.RCSTXEN02.rcstxen0 1410057369   sv-dest-filer:/vol_xen_shared 07 Sep 2014 03:36:09 Yes        None            7%  (2%)

 

2196202031 2014-09-16_0400+0100_daily_cc_snapvault_xen_shared_sv-dest-filer_vol_xen_shared_.-.rcstxen01_taxtech.RCSTXEN02.rcstxen04 1410893649   sv-dest-filer:/vol_xen_shared 16 Sep 2014 19:54:09 No         None            5%  (2%)

 

2200903264 2014-09-21_0200+0100_weekly_cc_snapvault_xen_shared_sv-dest-filer_vol_xen_shared_.-.rcstxen01_taxtech.RCSTXEN02.rcstxen0 1411275802   sv-dest-filer:/vol_xen_shared 21 Sep 2014 06:03:22 No         None            3%  (1%)

 

2204771370 2014-09-25_0400+0100_daily_cc_snapvault_xen_shared_sv-dest-filer_vol_xen_shared_.-.rcstxen01_taxtech.RCSTXEN02.rcstxen04 1411633052   sv-dest-filer:/vol_xen_shared 25 Sep 2014 09:17:32 No         None            2%  (0%)

 

2205818296 2014-09-26_0400+0100_daily_cc_snapvault_xen_shared_sv-dest-filer_vol_xen_shared_.-.rcstxen01_taxtech.RCSTXEN02.rcstxen04 1411724988   sv-dest-filer:/vol_xen_shared 26 Sep 2014 10:49:48 No         None            2%  (0%)

 

2206586291 2014-09-27_0400+0100_daily_cc_snapvault_xen_shared_sv-dest-filer_vol_xen_shared_.-.rcstxen01_taxtech.RCSTXEN02.rcstxen04 1411807902   sv-dest-filer:/vol_xen_shared 27 Sep 2014 09:51:42 Yes        None            1%  (0%)

 

2207303157 2014-09-28_0200+0100_weekly_cc_snapvault_xen_shared_sv-dest-filer_vol_xen_shared_.-.rcstxen01_taxtech.RCSTXEN02.rcstxen0 1411889189   sv-dest-filer:/vol_xen_shared 28 Sep 2014 08:26:29 No         None            1%  (0%)

 

2208054153 2014-09-29_0400+0100_daily_cc_snapvault_xen_shared_sv-dest-filer_vol_xen_shared_.-.rcstxen01_taxtech.RCSTXEN02.rcstxen04 1411974206   sv-dest-filer:/vol_xen_shared 29 Sep 2014 08:03:26 No         None            1%  (0%)

 

2208997030 2014-09-30_0400+0100_daily_cc_snapvault_xen_shared_sv-dest-filer_vol_xen_shared_.-.rcstxen01_taxtech.RCSTXEN02.rcstxen04 1412060177   sv-dest-filer:/vol_xen_shared 30 Sep 2014 07:56:17 No         None            0%  (0%)

 

2209002748 sv-dest-filer(2017803008)_vol_xen_shared-base.131 1412079564   sv-dest-filer:/vol_xen_shared 30 Sep 2014 13:19:24 No         Busy - SnapVault 0%  (0%)

2209002747 2014-09-30_1319+0100_daily_cc_snapvault_xen_shared_sv-dest-filer_vol_xen_shared_.-.rcstxen01_taxtech.RCSTXEN02.rcstxen04 1412079571   sv-dest-filer:/vol_xen_shared 30 Sep 2014 13:19:31 Yes        None            0%  (0%) 

 

 

 

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