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LeeClayton's avatar
LeeClayton
Level 5
16 years ago

Catalog size, too big? and can it be downsized?

How big is too big for a catalog? Mine is currently 140GB - is it possible to shrink a catalog somehow? .
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  • Andy_Welburn's avatar
    Andy_Welburn
    16 years ago
    Host Properties/Master Server/<master_server>/Global Attributes tab "Compress catalog interval" - ours currently set to 210 days so only images older than that are compressed (for interest our catalog is ~100Gb but depending on your environment this could be considerably more). If you do any restores that involve compressed images then NB uncompresses them - so beware if you're tight on space.

    There is also an archiving facility - check out the admin guides.
Andy_Welburn's avatar
Andy_Welburn
Level 6
16 years ago
Host Properties/Master Server/<master_server>/Global Attributes tab "Compress catalog interval" - ours currently set to 210 days so only images older than that are compressed (for interest our catalog is ~100Gb but depending on your environment this could be considerably more). If you do any restores that involve compressed images then NB uncompresses them - so beware if you're tight on space.

There is also an archiving facility - check out the admin guides.