catalogs folder is growing

[nath1967]

My catalogs folder is getting to big and getting error on disk space. I went to tool, option, catalog and select truncate catalogs after 12 month. Did not seem to do anything. Can I remove those file with some utility tool? And if I do so, will I be able to do a restore if necessary?

Using backup exec 12 sp1 on windows server 2003 standard.

[Hywel_Mallett]

Once you've changed the setting, have you waited for the maintenance task to run (overnight by default)?

[nath1967]

Yes it's set to do it everyday @ 4am

[Ken_Putnam]

And if I do so, will I be able to do a restore if necessary? 

If the truncate does start working, you will need to inventory and then catalog a tape before you can restore from it

As for the setting having no effect, how old are you oldest catalogs?

[nath1967]

Thanks for your help. Got an answer for this issue from symantec. I have to stop the services, copy the catalogs folder to another drive and then restarted the service with an empty catalogs folder. If I need to do a restore in the option search catalog I will give the new path to the old catalogs folder. I will not use the truncate option for now.

[Hywel_Mallett]

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@nath1967 wrote:

If I need to do a restore in the option search catalog I will give the new path to the old catalogs folder.

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Did Symantec tell you how to do this? I'm a bit confused. Do you mean that the old catalogs can be searched for a restore?