NBU Logs Folder Contents
As part of troubleshooting support cases a while ago, I was asked to run mklogdir.bat to create the log directories on all of my NBU servers. This did what was needed at the time, but now I find that if I'm enabling verbose logs for specific processes I run out of disk space very quickly. Ideally I'd like to clear out the log folders so that I can keep as much disk space free as possible for the necessary logs that I actually want to collect at any one time.
Although the readme in the logs folder provides some great information around logs and the individual processes, I just wanted to confirm that I'm ok to go ahead and delete the majority of directories that exist currently. Are there any folders aside from the ALTPATH directory that I should keep? For example, I don't think that the user_ops directory is created by mklogdir.bat.
The only ones your really need are user_ops and admin
You can shutdown NetBackup and remove the rest if you wish
In 7.5 the unified logging may well recreate the ones if needs anyway and in view of the default it is handy to use vxlogcfg to controll the maximum number and size of the log files created as they can get pretty big
Having said that bpcd on a client is always useful and bpcd, bptm and bpbrm on a Media Server are always handy
Hope this helps
