Quoting Norm Szcyrek <nszcyrek AT iocenter DOT net>:

> I have a number of image files which are not being 
compressed by the NBU
> daemons, even though I've configured a 2 day interval 
via the GUI. Is
> there a way to manually force a compression to some 
of the images to
> save some disk space? Yes I am out of disk space, 
which is why I'm
> asking this question.  I suspect that 
the /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/tar
> command with the '-x' parameter is the way to go, but 
I'd like to ask
> the experts first before I try it.
>
> NBU details: Solaris 2.6, NBU v3.1.1GA [yes I'll be 
upgrading to DC 3.4
> soon]
> --
> Norm Szcyrek
> Systems Engineer
> Internet Operations Center, Inc.
> Southfield, MI, 48034   USA
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Norm:

I use bpimage

bpimage -[de]compress -client $CLNT -backupid $BID

There may be another way with the netbackup utilities, 
but this is the one I've always used.

David

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