Networker

Re: [Networker] Networker 7.6 - Force Networker to Release Space (Delete fil

2011-08-24 02:38:33
Subject: Re: [Networker] Networker 7.6 - Force Networker to Release Space (Delete fil
From: Dag Nygren <dag AT NEWTECH DOT FI>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:38:04 +0300
torsdag 18 augusti 2011 22:44:24 skrev du:
> The problem is due to Number of files (files + directories) limitation on
> our D2D device (max 25000/share). We can have limited number of large
> files, but can not exceed 25000 limit.
> 
> There are no active backups, we did even unmount/mount device, no problem
> there (device not busy)
> 
> D2D device's interface reports (real-time) count of files and dirs, I
> temporarily deleted a file, and checked the count reduce immediately.
> 
> "Our backups can continue" .. Our backups are stuck/failing due to 25000
> limitation imposed by the D2D device, available space is not an issue (we
> still have over 1 TB space left on the device). Its the files+dirs count
> affecting our ability to do backups (not even able to create files
> manually on the share, once we are going past 25000 limit).
> 
> We did nsrmm -dy -S  to remove a few hundreds of savesets, then ran nsrim
> -X a few times, space and files are not being cleared-up on the share.
> 
> (again, our emphasis is to reduce number of files/dirs, space is not an
> issue)

Try running:

nsrclone -P -W <volume name>

Best
Dag

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