manatee
10 years agoLevel 6
how to disregard partial backups in PureDisk
NBU 7.6.0.3
overnight i have this Oracle backup that failed in the early hours of the morning. it has already backup almost 1TB of data when it failed (due to missing archive). i have cancelled the retried job and manually started a fresh one.
for the partial backup images that were already done, how can i prevent dedup from using them and also how to free up the disk space consumed by them?
regards,
Rino
You should expire the image and reclaim the disk space
You should take a look at the below technote
How to reclaim deduplication storage space manually (PureDisk Storage Pool and NetBackup Media Server Deduplication Pool)
Article URL:http://www.veritas.com/docs/000005365- You may want to read up in NBU Admin Guide I about 'parts of NetBackup catalog ' The default installation path for NBU is /usr/openv. If /usr is not a separate filesystem, the it is part of / (root) partition. The image catalog is added to while a backup is running. Always a good idea to install NBU to a separate partition or at least move the image catalog to a different partition. Was any kind of sizing done before NBU was installed? And before Dedupe was implemented? The dedupe partition should have sufficient space to hold at least 2 weeks worth of backups. A partial backup should then not be an issue and will benefit the next backup as most of the data is already stored and only changed blocks will be added during next backup.
- How to relocate the images folder: http://www.veritas.com/docs/000038245 ...this is usually the largest portion of the catalog. The "images" folders does not contain backup images, it contains the images "files" file(s) for every backup image, hence the folder name of "images".