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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section IV. Configuring storage lifecycle policies (SLPs)
  4. Storage lifecycle policy versions
  5. Deleting old storage lifecycle policy versions
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Deleting old storage lifecycle policy versions

When a version of a storage lifecycle policy is no longer the active (or most recent) version, the version is subject to deletion. NetBackup automatically deletes the inactive version after all the copies that refer to it have finished processing. When the copies are complete, they are considered SLP-complete.

By default, NetBackup deletes an inactive SLP version after 14 days.

The following parameters in the SLP Parameters host properties apply to version deletion:

  • Cleanup interval (SLP.CLEANUP_SESSION_INTERVAL)

  • Unused SLP definition version cleanup delay (SLP.VERSION_CLEANUP_DELAY)

See SLP Parameters properties.

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