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guilhemlflo's avatar
guilhemlflo
Level 4
7 years ago

archive catalogue NBU

Hi, I am trying to archive an NBU catalog. I use the following link to do the actions: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH36433 only I have the error "exit status 227: no entity wa...
7.6
Linux
  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    7 years ago

    May I ask again - why do want to archive catalogs?

    Have you had a look at and considered my suggestions in my post above?

    There are better ways to deal with limited space on catalog filesystem:
    1. Add more disk and move catalogs to new volume.
    2. Try catalog compression.
    3. Review retention levels - I have never heard of a legal requirement to keep information for more than 10 years.

    Do you really want to take this chance knowing that something could go wrong? And knowing that you don't have any support from Veritas ?

    If you want to know if anything has been archived previously, you can find the command in the Catalog Archive overview:
    https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100016714.html

    To determine what images have been previously archived and removed from disk, run the following command. 

    # /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpcatlist -offline 

    Note: This should return "no entity was found" if catalog archiving has not been previously run.  For more information on what the fields in the bpcatlist output indicate, refer to 000028580 in the Related Articles section. 

     

Marianne's avatar
Marianne
Level 6
7 years ago

Oh! If you look at the example in the doc that you are following, you will notice that your date format is wrong.

Example from KB article:
# bpcatlist -client <name> -before Jan 1 2000 

Your command: 
bpcatlist -before 01 DEC 2007
should therefore be:
bpcatlist -before Dec 01 2007

  • guilhemlflo's avatar
    guilhemlflo
    Level 4
    7 years ago

    Hello, indeed for the date, but following test with the format indicated by the documentation, I have the same error.

    Note that I recover this platform and I have great difficulty knowing what has been done.

    Indeed in view of the error, I do not know if I will archive the data but rather try a compression.

    But I would not want to leave mistakes "under the carpet" and using another method.

    I have infinite retention and some backups date from the year 2000/2001. I would have wanted to archive this data in view of ancestry

     

    I try "/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpcatlist -offline " but i have : "no entity was found"