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when do blocks age after sealed DDB is empty

  • August 5, 2025
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A storage pool was sealed about a month ago. All jobs for that DDB appear to be gone, and the old folders are no longer seen under the physical paths for each partition, yet the backing storage has yet to be freed up to pre-sealed levels. Meaning - when do those old chunks get pruned from the libraries?

Space reclamation fails because the DDB paths aren’t around anymore obviously. There appears to be over 150TB locked up in the S3 library used by the DDB.

thanks

Best answer by Wasim

Hi ​@downhill .

Could you please review the Media agent\CVMA log to check if we are encountering any errors while performing the MACRO pruning operation? If there are any errors, I would appreciate it if you could share the relevant log details with me.

Regards,

Wasim

 

 

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  • August 7, 2025

Hi ​@downhill .

Could you please review the Media agent\CVMA log to check if we are encountering any errors while performing the MACRO pruning operation? If there are any errors, I would appreciate it if you could share the relevant log details with me.

Regards,

Wasim

 

 


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  • August 7, 2025

Apparently I was too impatient, it took much longer than I’d expect, but the cleanup finally ran and then autoremoved the sealed DDB. I’d swear I saw a link to “CMR”s in my cloud.commvault.com the other day, but it no longer exists. I think there should be some way of observing the status of that reclamation or macro pruning rather than just wait and see, or combing logs.