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Raghav_tv
Level 3
11 years ago

Cant compress Netbackup Catalog DB

Hello Everyone, We had a problem with free space on a Local Drive of a Master Server, hence we had to migrate few images to another drive allocated by SAN Team. ALTPATH has also been set on th...
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    Raghav_tv
    10 years ago

    Images get decompressed during copy operation. Netbackup is unaware of this NTFS compression. Assuming that the image is already compressed(going with image header), NBU doesnt attempt to compress it again. So, we first have to decompress the backup images and then kick off compression again.

    Step 1:- bpimage -decompress -client <clientname>

    Step 2:- bpimage -compress -client <clientname>

     

    Now, all images are compressed :)

Raghav_tv's avatar
Raghav_tv
Level 3
10 years ago

Images get decompressed during copy operation. Netbackup is unaware of this NTFS compression. Assuming that the image is already compressed(going with image header), NBU doesnt attempt to compress it again. So, we first have to decompress the backup images and then kick off compression again.

Step 1:- bpimage -decompress -client <clientname>

Step 2:- bpimage -compress -client <clientname>

 

Now, all images are compressed :)