What is "Cleanup secondary backup" job regularly executed by SCV/NDB?
Applies to
- NetApp Data Broker (NDB)
- SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere (SCV)
Answer
- Cleanup secondary backup job is scheduled to remove orphaned backup records for SnapMirror and SnapVault relationships.
- During the job, SCV/NDB compares the list of backups that are stored in it's own MySQL repository (NSM) against the snapshots that exist on the storage system.
- If there are any orphaned MySQL records (snapshots no longer exist in Data ONTAP) then they will be purged.
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