Good morning all,
before to write this discussion, i've spent some time reading about the problem i'm facing.
I found that NBU cat directory where i do a copy of catalog is growing so much even if i keep it only for 2 weeks.
It use 68G of space on disk.
I think it is so much.
[root@ph469702]/local# /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpcatlist -offline
no entity was found
Around 8700 images:
[root@ph469702]/local# /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpcatlist -online |wc -l
8750
A lot of space used (/local/NBU-CAT):
[root@ph469702]/local/NBU-CAT# df -h /local
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 86G 69G 14G 84% /local
du -ah |sort -n
4.5G ./ph469702.ams20.vzbi.caas_1388144444_C1_F1.1388144444.img
4.5G ./ph469702.ams20.vzbi.caas_1388749253_C1_F1.1388749253.img
4.6G ./ph469702.ams20.vzbi.caas_1388490043_C1_F1.1388490043.img
4.6G ./ph469702.ams20.vzbi.caas_1388576446_C1_F1.1388576446.img
4.6G ./ph469702.ams20.vzbi.caas_1388662860_C1_F1.1388662860.img
4.6G ./ph469702.ams20.vzbi.caas_1389009067_C1_F1.1389009067.img
4.6G ./ph469702.ams20.vzbi.caas_1389094857_C1_F1.1389094857.img
4.6G ./ph469702.ams20.vzbi.caas_1389181262_C1_F1.1389181262.img
4.6G ./ph469702.ams20.vzbi.caas_1389267665_C1_F1.1389267665.img
4.7G ./ph469702.ams20.vzbi.caas_1388230841_C1_F1.1388230841.img
4.7G ./ph469702.ams20.vzbi.caas_1388320255_C1_F1.1388320255.img
4.7G ./ph469702.ams20.vzbi.caas_1388404249_C1_F1.1388404249.img
4.7G ./ph469702.ams20.vzbi.caas_1388835645_C1_F1.1388835645.img
4.7G ./ph469702.ams20.vzbi.caas_1388925052_C1_F1.1388925052.img
68G .
Would like to decrease the amount fo space used for CATALOG Backup.
I'm not using tape.
[root@ph469702]/local/NBU-CAT# /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bppllist CATALOG_BACKUP -L
Policy Name: CATALOG_BACKUP
Options: 0x0
template: FALSE
audit_reason: ?
Names: (none)
Policy Type: NBU-Catalog (35)
Active: yes
Effective date: 07/21/2011 20:42:26
Mult. Data Stream: no
Perform Snapshot Backup: no
Snapshot Method: (none)
Snapshot Method Arguments: (none)
Perform Offhost Backup: no
Backup Copy: 0
Use Data Mover: no
Data Mover Type: 2
Use Alternate Client: no
Alternate Client Name: (none)
Use Virtual Machine: 0
Hyper-V Server Name: (none)
Enable Instant Recovery: no
Policy Priority: 100
Max Jobs/Policy: 1
Disaster Recovery: 0
Collect BMR Info: no
Keyword: (none specified)
Data Classification: -
Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy: no
Client Encrypt: no
Checkpoint: no
Residence: NBU-CAT
Volume Pool: CatalogBackup
Server Group: *ANY*
Granular Restore Info: no
Exchange Source attributes: no
Exchange 2010 Preferred Server: (none defined)
Application Discovery: no
Discovery Lifetime: 0 seconds
ASC Application and attributes: (none defined)
Generation: 28
Ignore Client Direct: no
Enable Metadata Indexing: no
Index server name: NULL
Use Accelerator: no
Client/HW/OS/Pri/DMI: ph469702.ams20.vzbi.caas Linux Linux 0 0 0 0 ?
Include: CATALOG_DRIVEN_BACKUP
Schedule: CATALOG_BACKUP
Type: FULL (0)
Calendar sched: Enabled
......
Maximum MPX: 1
Synthetic: 0
Checksum Change Detection: 0
PFI Recovery: 0
Retention Level: 1 (2 weeks)
u-wind/o/d: 0 0
Incr Type: DELTA (0)
Alt Read Host: (none defined)
Max Frag Size: 0 MB
Number Copies: 1
Fail on Error: 0
Residence: NBU-CAT
Volume Pool: (same as policy volume pool)
Server Group: (same as specified for policy)
Residence is Storage Lifecycle Policy: 0
Schedule indexing: 0
Daily Windows:
.........
Catalog Disaster Recovery Configuration:
Email Address: (none specified)
Disk Path: /local/NBUDR <---- Destination
User Name: (none specified)
Pass Word: (none specified)
Critical policy: (none specified)
Thank you.
Regards,
Michele