>
>I had this response from Dwight regarding checking the Expire Interval
>setting on my MVS Server running ADSM V1. I can do the query option command
>and it shows me that the interval is 1 (I think this means 1 hour as it
>appears to happen every hour). However, in the V1 Admin Guide under Server
>Options, ExpInterval is not one of the options listed.
>
>Does anyone know if or how I can change this option?
>
>Dianne Sharp
>Operations Analyst
>CLEAR Communications, Auckland, New Zealand
>dsharp AT clear.co DOT nz
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>From: decook AT amoco DOT com[SMTP:decook AT amoco DOT com]
>Sent: Thursday, 20 March, 1997 2:03AM
>To: Dianne Sharp
>Subject: Re: FW: database keeps growing??
>
> Dianne, I've never been exposed to a V1 environment. What I can tell
> you about V2 is that if you do a "query option" in a dsmadmc session
> there is a field "expinterval" and that is how often expires run. I
> believe they also (and this might be how it is done in V1) when
> backups run. The expinterval might be to help get rid of files on
> nodes that only backup once a month (or so)...?
> One other thing you could try is (from an administrative session)
> issue an "EXPIRE INVENTORY" and if it tells you that it is unknown
> that would indicate it came to exist in V2.
> Hope this helps.
> later
> Dwight
>
>
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>Subject: FW: database keeps growing??
>Author: DSHARP (DSHARP AT clear.co DOT nz) at unix,mime
>Date: 3/17/97 11:27 PM
>
>
>I kept this EMail that you sent ages ago because I wanted to ask you a
>question, that I've only just got round to.
>
>You mention checking the expire interval on the ADSM server. I can't
>find anything in the manuals about this. Is this a function of ADSM
>Server V2? We are currently running V1 on MVS but are updating to V2
>soon.
>
>Dianne Sharp
>Operations Analyst
>CLEAR Communications, Auckland, New Zealand
>dsharp AT clear.co DOT nz
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>>From: Dwight Cook[SMTP:decook AT AMOCO DOT COM]
>>Sent: Wednesday, 04 December, 1996 1:03PM
>>To: Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L
>>Subject: Re: database keeps growing??
>>
>>Item Subject: database keeps growing??
>> Well, I haven't read the other messages but...
>> each backup/archive copy of a file takes 100+bytes (I forget the exact
>> number) so that is your growth...
>> Check your expire interval on your server... if it is 0 (zero) then
>> you will have to manually trigger file expiration (which is best
>> because then you controll when it happens) if it is 0 and you haven't
>> triggered file expiration it doesn't matter how you have your policy
>> domains set up because you are never deleting obsolete files...
>> Could also be like I was doing at first... the expiration process was
>> starting at poor times so I would just cancel the process... same
>> thing, I wasn't trashing old old copies...
>> I've got two servers rolling in a third currently and assembling a
>> forth and fifth... but on the existing two one has a 2GB db and has
>> 6Terabytes of backup/archive's and the other has a 10GBdb and only
>> 4Terabytes of data that is due to the first backing up SAP
>> environments of large databases only(/mainly) and the second is
>> backing up novell servers with A-BUH-ZILLION small, changing daily,
>> multiply'n like mice, files on them... and ADSM being the fair backup
>> system that it is uses just as much space keeping track of the 400
>> byte file as it does tracking the 2GB file....
>> Also how long are you keeping your activity log... ? If you are
>> keeping more than 7 days it would be better to dump it out to a flat
>> file and archive it away on tape...
>> Anyway, if I'm forgetting anything I sure someone else will catch it
>> but I'm betting it is either the cold/hard/facts of the number of
>> files being backed up OR the lack of housekeeping...
>> GOOD LUCK :-)
>> later
>> Dwight
>>
>>
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>>Subject: database keeps growing??
>>Author: ADSM-L at unix,sh/DD.RFC-822=ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>>Date: 12/3/96 5:09 PM
>>
>>
>>First thank you all the response mails to me. They give me lots of help.
>>Our ADSM database is growing repidly. My question is the growing will
>>stop on certain size or will grow unlimited? Is there some way to reduce
>>the database size, or only add more space?
>>
>>We have sp2/aix 4.1 server and 23 nodes which is most OS/2s and unixs.
>>
>>Any comments will be appreciated.
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>
>>Julie Xu
>>04/12/96
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