I thought Expire Inventory was a 'constant' keyed off of how many files
you have and not how many are deleted.  This is interesting.

I've heard of shops that only run it on weekends because it takes so long
which I don't understand.  It's "cancelable" and its "restartable" and so
why not run it during every window of opportunity it you need to???.

I guess the fact that I see it run about 1 1/2 hours every weekday means I
have a fairly stable 'cycle' of backups and expirations.  Although it does
spike to 3 hours from time to time ....

... joe.f.


Joseph A Faracchio,  Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley


On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Ken Sedlacek wrote:

> Richard, you were right one.
>
> After the "expire inventory" was completed, I did the "q occ" (query
> occupancy) and we had about 6GB of AIX files expire on one of the AIX
> servers.
>
> That explains it!!
>
> I just never observed this and was concerned as we all are when "unknown"
> occurrences are observed.
>
> Thanks for you help.
>
>
>
> Ken Sedlacek
> Kyrus Corporation
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>
>                     Richard Sims
>                     <rbs AT BU DOT EDU>         To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST 
> DOT EDU
>                     Sent by:             cc:
>                     "ADSM: Dist       Groups: Don't Expand
>                     Stor Manager"        Subject:     Re: "Expire Inventory" 
> taking
>                     <ADSM-L AT VM DOT MA        way too long to complete
>                     RIST.EDU>
>
>
>                     02/20/01
>                     12:19 PM
>                     Please
>                     respond to
>                     "ADSM: Dist
>                     Stor Manager"
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >We issue an expire inventory command on a daily admin schedule.
> ...
> >Today, it is taking well over 1 hour to complete.
>
> That might be the result of a retention threshold being reached,
> or a large number of files having gone Inactive some time ago.
> When the Expire Inventory completes, you will likely see some
> large numbers of files in the stats.
> Another possibility would be if someone inadvertently cut
> retention periods, but an ACTivate POlicyset would have to
> put it into effect, so would be conscious.
>
>   Richard Sims, Bu
>