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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    OS and NBU version?

    From the tuning guide for NBU 6.5

    Catalog compression
    When theNetBackup image catalog becomes too large for the available disk space, you can manage this situation in either of the following ways:
    ■ Compress the image catalog
    ■ Move the image catalog (UNIX systems only).
    For details, refer to "Compressing and uncompressing the Image Catalog" in the NetBackup Administrator’s Guide, Volume I.
    See here http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/290282.htm

    Control image-catalog compression by setting the Global Attributes property,
    Compress Catalog Interval. Use this property to specify how old the backup
    information must be before it is compressed. Specify the number of days to
    defer compression information, thus users who restore files from recent
    backups are unaffected. By default, Compress Catalog Interval is set to 0 and
    image compression is not enabled
  • there is a bug in some older versions of NetBackup that has issues with compression and uncompression.

    Since you did not indicate your OS or version, blah blah blah...

    Search the knowledgebase for your version number and catalog compression

    Stuart is on the money though - mark his as the solution!


  •  Hello The OS we are using is Solaris and the Netbackup Version is ^6.5.4..