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Follow up to the DPM recovery point expiration issues

Previously, I blogged about issues I was having where old recovery points were not being expired/removed from my DPM servers.  I had to open a ticket with Microsoft, and worked with them to determine the cause, and since then, they have released a fix.

The fix that Microsoft developed is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=aee949aa-d3e7-4b0f-b718-00b7c20f1257&displayLang=en

A few people have asked for the PowerShell script “show-pruneshadowcopies.ps1” that Microsoft provided and I mentioned in my previous post (here).  The script looks like this:

#displays all RP for data sources and shows which RP’s would be deleted by the regular pruneshadowcopies.ps1
# Outputs to a logfile:  C:\Program Files\Microsoft DPM\DPM\bin\SHOW-PRUNESHADOWCOPIES.LOG

#Author    : Mike J
#Date    : 02/24/2009
$version="V1.0"

$date=get-date
$logfile="SHOW-PRUNESHADOWCOPIES.LOG.txt"

function GetDistinctDays([Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.OMCommon.ProtectionGroup] $group,
[Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.OMCommon.Datasource] $ds)
{   
    if($group.ProtectionType -eq [Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.OMCommon.ProtectionType]::DiskToTape)
    {
        return 0
    }
    $scheduleList = get-policyschedule -ProtectionGroup $group -ShortTerm
    if($ds -is [Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.ObjectModel.FileSystem.FsDataSource])
    {
        $jobType = [Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.Intent.JobTypeType]::ShadowCopy
    }
    else
    {
        $jobType = [Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.Intent.JobTypeType]::FullReplicationForApplication
        if($ds.ProtectionType -eq [Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.Intent.ReplicaProtectionType]::ProtectFromDPM)
        {           
            return 2
        }
    }
    write-host   "Look for jobType $jobType"

    foreach($schedule in $scheduleList)
    {
        write-host("schedule jobType {0}" -f $schedule.JobType)
        if($schedule.JobType -eq $jobType)
        {
            return [Math]::Ceiling(($schedule.WeekDays.Length * $ds.RecoveryRangeinDays) / 7)
        }
    }

    return 0
}

function IsShadowCopyExternal($id)
{
    $result = $false;

    $ctx = New-Object -Typename Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.DB.SqlContext
    $ctx.Open()

    $cmd = $ctx.CreateCommand()
    $cmd.CommandText = "select COUNT(*) from tbl_RM_ShadowCopy where shadowcopyid = ‘$id’"  
    write-host $cmd.CommandText
    $countObj = $cmd.ExecuteScalar()
    write-host $countObj
    if ($countObj -eq 0)
    {
        $result = $true
    }
    $cmd.Dispose()
    $ctx.Close()

    return $result
}

function IsShadowCopyInUse($id)
{
    $result = $true;

    $ctx = New-Object -Typename Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.DB.SqlContext
    $ctx.Open()

    $cmd = $ctx.CreateCommand()
    $cmd.CommandText = "select ArchiveTaskId, RecoveryJobId from tbl_RM_ShadowCopy where ShadowCopyId = ‘$id’"  
    write-host $cmd.CommandText
    $reader = $cmd.ExecuteReader()
    while($reader.Read())
    {
        if ($reader.IsDBNull(0) -and $reader.IsDBNull(1))
        {
            $result = $false
        }
    }
    $cmd.Dispose()
    $ctx.Close()

    return $result
}

"**********************************" > $logfile
"Version $version" >> $logfile
get-date >> $logfile

$dpmservername = &"hostname"

$dpmsrv = connect-dpmserver $dpmservername

if (!$dpmsrv)
{
    write-host "Unable to connect to $dpmservername"
    exit 1
}

write-host $dpmservername
"Selected DPM server = $DPMservername" >> $logfile
$pgList = get-protectiongroup $dpmservername
if (!$pgList)
{
    write-host   "No PGs found"
    disconnect-dpmserver $dpmservername
    exit 2
}

write-host("Number of ProtectionGroups = {0}" -f $pgList.Length)
$replicaList = @{}
$latestScDateList = @{}

foreach($pg in $pgList)
{
    $dslist = get-datasource $pg
    if ($dslist.length -gt 0)
    {
    write-host("Number of datasources in this PG = {0}" -f $dslist.length)
    ("Number of datasources in this PG = {0}" -f $dslist.length) >> $logfile
     }
    Foreach ($ds in $dslist)
    {
       write-host("DS NAME=  $ds")
       ("DS NAME=  $ds") >>$logfile
    }
    foreach ($ds in $dslist)
    {       
        $rplist = get-recoverypoint $ds | where { $_.DataLocation -eq ‘Disk’ }
        write-host("Number of recovery points for $ds {0}" -f $rplist.length)
        ("Number of recovery points for $ds {0}" -f $rplist.length) >>$logfile 
        $countDistinctDays = GetDistinctDays $pg $ds
        write-host("Number of days with fulls = $countDistinctDays")
        ("Number of days with fulls = $countDistinctDays") >>$logfile
        if($countDistinctDays -eq 0)
        {
            write-host   "D2T PG. No recovery points to delete"
            "D2T PG. No recovery points to delete" >>$logfile
            continue;
        }
        $replicaList[$ds.ReplicaPath] = $ds.RecoveryRangeinDays
        $latestScDateList[$ds.ReplicaPath] = new-object DateTime 0,0
        $lastDayOfRetentionRange = ([DateTime]::UtcNow).AddDays($ds.RecoveryRangeinDays * -1);       
        write-host("Distinct days to count = {0}. LastDayOfRetentionRange = {1} " -f $countDistinctDays, $lastDayOfRetentionRange)
        ("Distinct days to count = {0}. LastDayOfRetentionRange = {1} " -f $countDistinctDays, $lastDayOfRetentionRange) >>$logfile
        $distinctDays = 0;
        $lastDistinctDay = (get-Date).Date
        $numberOfRecoveryPointsDeleted = 0

        if ($rplist)
        {
            foreach ($rp in ($rplist | sort-object -property UtcRepresentedPointInTime -descending))
            {                       
                if ($rp)
                {                   
                    if ($rp.UtcRepresentedPointInTime.Date -lt $lastDistinctDay)
                    {
                        $distinctDays += 1
                        $lastDistinctDay = $rp.UtcRepresentedPointInTime.Date
                    }
                    write-host(" $ds")
                    (" $ds") >>$logfile
                    write-host("  Recovery Point #$distinctdays RPtime={0}" -f $rp.UtcRepresentedPointInTime)
                    ("  Recovery Point #$distinctdays RPtime={0}" -f $rp.UtcRepresentedPointInTime) >>$logfile
                    if (($distinctDays -gt $countDistinctDays) -and ($rp.UtcRepresentedPointInTime -lt $lastDayOfRetentionRange))
                    {
                        write-host ("Recovery Point would be deleted ! – RPtime={0}" -f $rp.UtcRepresentedPointInTime)  -foregroundcolor red
                        ("Recovery Point would be deleted ! – RPtime={0} <<<<<<<" -f $rp.UtcRepresentedPointInTime) >>$logfile
#remove-recoverypoint $rp -ForceDeletion -confirm:$true | out-null
                        $numberOfRecoveryPointsDeleted += 1
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        write-host "    Recovery point not expired yet"
                        "    Recovery point not yet expired" >>$logfile
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    write-host "Got a NULL rp"
                    "Got a NULL rp" >>$logfile
                }   
            }

            write-host "Number of RPs that would be deleted = $numberOfRecoveryPointsDeleted"  
            "Number of RPs that would be deleted = $numberOfRecoveryPointsDeleted" >>$logfile            
        }
    }
}

disconnect-dpmserver $dpmservername
write-host "Exiting from script"

exit