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NathanNieman
Level 6
10 years ago

Running out of drive space DB is huge.

Ever week I have to clean up the logs. which give me about 11 GB to keep everything moving.   This is a windows server master/media, and also has OPcenter running on it. Server 2008 R2 stand...
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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    10 years ago

    This is a windows server master/media, and also has OPcenter running on it.

    This is a BIG NO-NO!!!

    OpsCenter must be installed on a separate server. It can be a VM.

    "C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\db" .. is 207GB in size..

    Pretty normal for a medium-sized NBU environment.

    Images folder should be taking up most space. Image catalog size is determined by amount of files being backed up and retention levels.

    See Estimating catalog space requirements in Chapter 17 of  NBU Admin Guide I  to calculate expected catalog size and how to manage/maintain this.

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Marianne
Level 6
10 years ago
All the backups previously taken with infinity retention will stay in NBU catalogs and can be restored at any point in time.
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    mwrandall
    Level 2
    7 years ago
    Shouldn't, in full disclosure, you mention that you can expire the data in your NBU, and keep the tapes, then perform Phase 1 and Phase 2 Import from the tapes to be able to restore again? We have our tapes labeled, and expire the data, but have a few older one, which every once in a while (maybe every other year) we have to go through the process to import and restore data from something that old. We know what set we want and that's enough.
    • Marianne's avatar
      Marianne
      Level 6
      7 years ago
      mwrandall wrote:
      Shouldn't, in full disclosure, you mention that you can expire the data in your NBU, and keep the tapes, then perform Phase 1 and Phase 2 Import from the tapes to be able to restore again? 


      Certainly NOT the way to deal with long retentions.
      It may work for you, but definately not recommended.

      Images infornation should stay in NBU catalog until they naturally expire.
      NBU Admin Guide I contains various recommendations on how to deal with large catalogs.