Summary
This article describes the administrator procedure for reclaiming disk or tape space by expiring jobs.
Step By Step
Important: Although the images in this article depict a specific version of the DPX management console, their functionality is applicable to all currently supported versions.
Warning: Expiring jobs delete Catalog data that cannot be restored. Before you perform this procedure, ensure that you want to permanently delete this data.
To expire jobs:
- In the DPX management console, select Catalog > Job Functions.
- Select the job instance to expire. You may select more than one job instance.
- In the Job Task Panel, click Expire Catalog Job Instance and click Yes to proceed with catalog job expiration.
- Select Catalog > Condense > Run and Monitor a Condense Job and run the condense job. The data is deleted on completion of the condense process.
Note:
- For Block backup jobs, this action does not reclaim the base backup space. To do so, delete the backup job definition and then run another condense operation.
- Please note for freeing up full tapes all jobs instances on the tape must expired or the tape itself must be expired.