Well that's just a huge relief!!  Thanks Justin!

Scott Chapman
Senior Technical Specialist
Storage and Database Administration
ICBC - Victoria
Ph:  250.414.7650  Cell:  250.213.9295
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:35 PM
To: Chapman, Scott
Cc: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] /opt/openv space required during upgrade




On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Chapman, Scott wrote:

> I guess I'm a bit confused....will netbackup convert the old flat
> catalog into the new "real" database catalog?  Will it not need to
have
No, the only thing that is converted into a "real" database catalog is
your EMM database (robot and drive definitions/tapes).

> roughly the same amount of space for that new catalog as it would for
> the old catalog?
See above
>  If so, that would mean twice the amount of space I am
> using now, at least temporarily during the conversion?  Or maybe
nothing
> actually gets converted??
Only to the EMM database (small < 100mb)

>
> I have had to compress this database already (years ago) to fit it
into
> the existing filesystem....so I'm compressing catalog entries after 7
> days.
Ok.

>
> Scott Chapman
> Senior Technical Specialist
> Storage and Database Administration
> ICBC - Victoria
> Ph:  250.414.7650  Cell:  250.213.9295

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