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DPO's avatar
DPO
Level 6
10 years ago

Compressing old netbackup catalog images

I''m running NetBackup 7.6 envrionment. I would like to compress old images let say clients that were backedup before 90 days. I had enabled this in master server properties and restarted NBU.   ...
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  • NBU35's avatar
    NBU35
    10 years ago

    Better yu enable compression of catalog at Netbackup level.

    Activity Monitor>> Host properties>> master server>> Global Attiributes>> compress catalog interval.

    enable this option and let NBU do compression of catalog.

DPO's avatar
DPO
Level 6
10 years ago

I can do that ..but before doing so I would like to get clarification on the following.

 

1) How would I ensure that NBU compresses the old images (by the way on my linux master ncompress is also installed)

2) There are few .lck files and I'm sure few images could be depending on older images. How would I compress in that situation

3) Suppose if I compress the catalog, will I be able to browse the image details in BAR ? so that at the time of restore i can uncompress it.

4) How much time it will take to compress or uncompress. I know compression runs while image cleanup runs but would like to know how much time it will take to uncompress.