job restore resources - removing

[Marcopolo]

Is it possible to delete a historical resource?

E.g. - When we create a new restore job, in the 'all resources' there is a server that is no longer active which we'd like to remove

[AmolB]

The server is appearing in "All Resources" because of the catalogs, Once older catalogs are purged the

server will disappear from the list.

[Marcopolo]

We only hold the last 30 days from what I can see and said server has been off the system for about 5 years.

[CraigV]

...was that server part of the backup from 5 years ago? I don't think this is then possible...what's on tape is what would be available for restore.

If it is still showing in a backup list, have you opened the selection list to see if you can remove it via the text view?

Thanks!

[AmolB]

Open catalogs folder and sort files by date, check the list if you can locate any older file.

[Marcopolo · Accepted solution]

Just found an old post by you Craig about deleting the old pairs of XML and FH files, then running the catrebuildindex -r command.

I did find a host of XML and only a few FH so deleted them and left the pairs going back the previous month (which all tallied ok).

I then ran the command but it seemed to remove everything but I'm thinking because I ticked the setting of truncating on the test server, put it to 1 month so it took it from today and deleted everything.

It's not a problem but if you could clarify I'm on the right lines (I can always re-catalog a tape if required)

Btw, the resource is gone now so I acheived what I needed.

Thanks to you both

[CraigV]

It shouldn't be doing that. If you choose the option to truncate but keep 30 days of catalogs, it would only do so going-forward. Not immediately. And certainly not everything.

[Marcopolo]

Craig,

Here's what I did on the test server (imported DB from live yesterday), truncating was not enabled (and months greyed out). I guess this is because there are some drive path differences between the two. I ticked it, and set it to 1 Month.

I then checked the Catalog folder and noticed a batch of XML/FH file pairs going back 1 month and with large file sizes (this would make sense because they were copied from the other server yesterday).

I deleted every xml/fh file upto 10/09/2012 (about 850 files of appos 1k each) only a few dozen fh from what I could see.

Ran the command and it deleted pretty much everything.

[Marcopolo]

Going to run the same process on the live server which has now been updated to Svr2008 R2 and see if the same thing happens

[CraigV]

Cool, keep us updated!

[Marcopolo]

Worked today, how bizarre.

Ok, last job then I'm done. I want to delete all the catalog files from yesterday going back the 1 month I have set since the backup last night under 2008 was fine. Can I simply delete all the FH/XML and run catrebuildindex -r

NB - I want to keep last night catalog files

Thanks

[CraigV]

If you do that, grab copies of the catalog files BEFORE doing this. At least you can revert to this manual backup if your process above doesn't work.

Thanks!

[Marcopolo]

Will do, If I'm deleting all the files upto 14/11, do I still need to run the command?

Or is it consodidating the database by doing this and keeping it tidy?

[Marcopolo]

...also, I take i can delete all the files in the catstore (FL files) which I understand get created during reboots but none of them are dated post July 2012