We see this behaviour (alarming "sudden" increase in db space usage) when
jobs run over at least one backup window. If the job ends before the other
round of backups start, we see the db process kick-in and usage starts
going down.

/Steve
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On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Tim McMurphy wrote:

> Our netbackup db was up to 50 gig and had consumed 95% of the disk space so
> I upgraded the disks and all was well again. It had been at 85% and climbing
> for a few weeks. 
> 
> Once I upgraded the netbackup db suddenly dropped to 30 gig. This leaves me
> wondering how much space, either % free or gigabytes, does netbackup require
> to compress its database?
> 
> Nothing is missing or not functioning so the upgrade worked fine. The
> database hadn't compressed itself in more than 2 weeks from what I can tell.
> 
> Any info?
> 
> Thanks
> 
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