On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:17:06AM -0500, Kirsch, Mathew (Matt) wrote:
> We already have the CLEAN_IN_BACKGROUND link. We already compress our
> images. We have few, if any, "infinity" retentions.
>  
> I am unable to find documentation on the "bpimage" command, particularly
> with respect to this "-cleanup" flag. Without official documentation as to
> what the below command does, from Veritas, I cannot run it to see if it will
> help.

We used to try running the bpimage -cleanup in cron jobs but found that
it would case some backups to fail.  It was frequent enough that we
don't do it any more.  This was back in 4.5 - I haven't tested it again
on 5.0.

        .../Ed

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Otto [mailto:Dan.Otto AT veritas DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 4:51 PM
> To: Kirsch, Mathew (Matt)
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Non-destructive ways to reduce the size of the
> Netbackup database ?
> 
> Before you start adding disk space, make sure the clean up is running thus
> removing expired images-
> 
> Add this touch file-
> 
> # touch /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/CLEAN_IN_BACKGROUND
> 
> Run this in cron or manually and it should free any disk space taken up by
> expired images.
> # /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpimage -cleanup -allclients

[major snipping]

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org