Can you compress a Hot Catalog backup?

[LeeClayton]

I've been trying to get my 150GB catalog down in size. I went to the properties of the Master server, Global attributes, and ticked "compress catalog interval" then set it to 7 days. The backup size never changed, even after a week, also set it to 1 day and still no change in the size? Is there another setting i need to make?
ah, using netbackup 6.5.3.1

[rj_nbu]

 Hi

Check if the compression is enabled:

/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpconfig -U | grep Compress

Now, lets find if some images are compressed.

find /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images -name "*.Z" -exec ls -l {} \;


-Rajeev

[LeeClayton]

Sorry - using windows netbackup

[LeeClayton]

Sorry - using windows netbackup

[LeeClayton]

ran

usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpconfig -U | find /i Compress

returned

ZERO!!!!

[LeeClayton]

sorry when i ran this is what returned

usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpconfig -U | find /i Compress

"""Compress Image DB Files: older than 1 day(s)"""

[rj_nbu]

 HI ,

in that case,  run  (in cmd)   bpconfig.exe -U | findstr Compress

this shoudl return somethng like


C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\admincmd>bpconfig.exe -U | findstr Compress

Compress Image DB Files: older than 7 day(s)


then in the ..\netbackup\db\images directory, check if there are any compressed files

-Rajeev

[LeeClayton]

I did a serach in netbackup\db\images directory

and found no *.Z files

[LeeClayton]

We do have the catalog split accross 2 drives as we ran out of space on one drive so split it onto another - not my decision as i know it's messy