Garbage Collection not running after restart (4045931)

Date: Oct 2010

Affected Product & Version :
• NSD 1.2

Affected Module & Version :
• N/A

OS Version – any


Symptoms:
SmartDisk has been restarted with the Garbage Collection window open. Deduplication is not running, backups did retire before the restart, but still Garbage Collection does not run.


Explanation:
Garbage Collection does not recall that retirements have happened before the restart, so a new retirement will be needed to trigger Garbage Collection.
The requirements for Garbage Collection are that the GC window is open, deduplication is not running, and a stream has been retired whilst SmartDisk has been running.

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