Eric,

You can manipulate the keep_days in job.conf.  Set it to 1,
thsi will keep job retentiondays to 1.

[/usr/openv/netbackup/db/jobs] 9672 #cat job.conf
keep_days 2
verbose

-ravi

PS:  I'm writing my own utility to actually inquire the job
database.  I will make it public one it is available.

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Porter, Eric wrote:

Eric>Thanks,
Eric>
Eric>I guess I should clarify.  I would like to do this from a cron job.  By the
Eric>time I get in to clean it each day I have 4000+ entries in the activity
Eric>monitor.
Eric>
Eric>Eric
Eric>
Eric>-----Original Message-----
Eric>From: John_Wang AT enron DOT net [mailto:John_Wang AT enron DOT net]
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Eric>Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Activity Monitor
Eric>
Eric>
Eric>
Eric>
Eric>Hello
Eric>
Eric>On the Unix GUI, you can filter by class, apply, select all, and delete.
Eric>
Eric>Regards,
Eric>John I Wang
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Eric>Hi,
Eric>
Eric>We are using SQL backtrack for our Oracle backups.  Unfortunately it tends
Eric>to generate a lot of small jobs, and we have hundreds of databases.  This
Eric>make the activity monitor very slow, and difficult to use.
Eric>
Eric>Is it possible to selectively delete log files (say by class).  I would 
like
Eric>to clean-up all the jobs for the sql-backtrack class once a day, while
Eric>leaving the other logs alone.
Eric>
Eric>Thanks
Eric>
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