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Mehul_Vyas
Level 4
7 years ago
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/opt/openv/netbackup/db is above threshold

Hello All,

 

/opt/openv/netbackup/db is above threshold.

Upon checking below files consuming more space. As I checked those files has been backed in catalog backup. Can you please suggest how action need to perform to reduce the threshold

/dev/mapper/crebm3200_snap-db
2.5T 2.2T 187G 93% /opt/openv/netbackup/db

 

Below are top 10 files:-

 

1717625952 /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images/ctogdapmwapvm1p/1541000000/catstore/oh306_prd_mo_net_std_linux_vmu_nacmwdlvmprdfa_su_crebm3200_grp_1_1541852900_FULL.f_imgRecord0

1139309434 /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images/ctogdapmwapvm1p/1541000000/catstore/oh306_prd_mo_net_std_linux_vmu_nacmwdlvmprdfa_su_crebm3200_grp_1_1541852900_FULL.f_imgStrings0

1054578588 /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images/ebmwlnx4/1542000000/catstore/oh306_nprd_mo_net_std_linux_vmu_mwdclusterd_su_crebm3200_grp_1_1542762182_INCR.f_imgRecord0

1054320708 /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images/ebmwlnx4/1542000000/catstore/oh306_nprd_mo_net_std_linux_vmu_mwdclusterd_su_crebm3200_grp_1_1542670398_INCR.f_imgRecord0

1054118268 /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images/ebmwlnx4/1542000000/catstore/oh306_nprd_mo_net_std_linux_vmu_mwdclusterd_su_crebm3200_grp_1_1542563883_INCR.f_imgRecord0

853871928 /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images/mwdvnasdm26008/1542000000/catstore/oh306_prd_mo_net_ndmp_emc_mwdvnasdm26008_vdm_51_swdgcgv1169_1y_su_crebm3200_grp_3_1542674551_INCR.f_imgRecord0

847367304 /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images/svsappvmwdc01/1542000000/catstore/oh306_prd_mo_net_msw_win_vmw_mwdlatamprdai_su_crebm3200_grp_1_1542762835_INCR.f_imgRecord0

846358128 /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images/svsappvmwdc01/1542000000/catstore/oh306_prd_mo_net_msw_win_vmw_mwdlatamprdai_su_crebm3200_grp_1_1542547666_INCR.f_imgRecord0

845457648 /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images/svsappvmwdc01/1542000000/catstore/oh306_prd_mo_net_msw_win_vmw_mwdlatamprdai_su_crebm3200_grp_1_1542670701_INCR.f_imgRecord0

828721404 /opt/openv/netbackup/db/images/gdsstealth-mw/1542000000/catstore/oh306_prd_mo_net_std_linux_vmu_nacmwdlvmprdex_su_crebm3200_grp_1_1542760412_INCR.f_imgRecord0

 

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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    7 years ago

    You cannot do anything manually to remove or reduce image files. 

    They need to be kept until expiration date (determined by the retention level in the policy schedule).

    So, your choices are :

    Carefully look at retention levels to see if this is in line with business recovery requirements.
    Add more space to db partition
    Move db/images to other filesystem with more space
    Use NBU Host Properties to implement catalog compression
    Consider catalog archiving (I do not recommend this as I have seen this going wrong... )

    NBU Admin Guide I explains the NBU Image Catalog in detail under 'Parts of the NetBackup catalog' and 'About the NetBackup image database '.

    Read through these topics, in particular:
     “Estimating catalog space requirements” 
    “Moving the image catalog” 

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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    7 years ago

    You cannot do anything manually to remove or reduce image files. 

    They need to be kept until expiration date (determined by the retention level in the policy schedule).

    So, your choices are :

    Carefully look at retention levels to see if this is in line with business recovery requirements.
    Add more space to db partition
    Move db/images to other filesystem with more space
    Use NBU Host Properties to implement catalog compression
    Consider catalog archiving (I do not recommend this as I have seen this going wrong... )

    NBU Admin Guide I explains the NBU Image Catalog in detail under 'Parts of the NetBackup catalog' and 'About the NetBackup image database '.

    Read through these topics, in particular:
     “Estimating catalog space requirements” 
    “Moving the image catalog” 

    • Mehul_Vyas's avatar
      Mehul_Vyas
      Level 4
      7 years ago

      Thanks for you suggestion Marriane.

      However, when running manual cleanup (bpimage -cleaup -allclients), the job running for more than 3 hrs and which is active.

       

      Nov 23, 2018 4:53:09 AM - Info bpdbm (pid=72393) image catalog cleanup
      Nov 23, 2018 4:53:09 AM - Info bpdbm (pid=72393) Cleaning up tables in the relational database
      Nov 23, 2018 4:53:09 AM - Info bpdbm (pid=72393) deleting images which expire before Fri Nov 23 04:53:07 2018 (1542966787)
      Nov 23, 2018 5:00:54 AM - Info nbdelete (pid=28941) deleting expired images. Media Server: crems3208 Media: @aaaal
      Nov 23, 2018 5:00:54 AM - Info bpdm (pid=29179) started
      Nov 23, 2018 5:00:54 AM - started process bpdm (pid=29179)
      Nov 23, 2018 5:00:54 AM - requesting resource  @aaaal
      Nov 23, 2018 5:00:54 AM - granted resource  MediaID=@aaaal;DiskVolume=ddmwdc0900_crebm3200_lsu1;DiskPool=ddmwdc0900_crebm3200_lsu1_dp;Path=ddmwdc0900_crebm3200_lsu1;StorageServer=ddmwdc0900;MediaServer=crebm3200
      Nov 23, 2018 5:00:56 AM - Info bpdm (pid=29179) initial volume ddmwdc0900_crebm3200_lsu1: Kbytes total capacity: 455154702336, used space: 412587818496, free space: 42566883840
      Nov 23, 2018 5:00:56 AM - Info bpdm (pid=29179) ending volume ddmwdc0900_crebm3200_lsu1: Kbytes total capacity: 455154702336, used space: 412587818496, free space: 42566883840
      Nov 23, 2018 5:00:56 AM - Info bpdm (pid=29179) EXITING with status 0

       

      • Marianne's avatar
        Marianne
        Level 6
        7 years ago

        Image Cleanup performs multiple tasks:
        1. It deletes expired images from NBU catalogs on the master server
        2. It connects to media servers to cleanup/delete expired disk images. 

        You can check bpdbm log on the master for image cleanup actions and bpdm log on media servers for nbdelete actions.

        Depending on the amount of expired images that are getting cleaned up, you may (or may not) see a difference in space on the master server.