NBU 7.1, RHEL 4.8.
I was browsing the catalog in the BAR GUI, trying to verify backups. At some point during the search my start date was reset from the 6 months I had set to back in 2008. As a result, NBU uncompressed about 100G of the catalog. I can add disk - but that 100G is going to come back (presumably) once the images are compressed again, so I don't really need the space. I'd like to kick the compression off manually.
The man page for bpimage says that the -cleanup flag will compress images scheduled for compression, with a note that this allows users to accomplish these tasks if they don't want to wait for the scheduler. When I run this command, it doesn't appear to do anything - it certainly doesn't start compressing images.
I can try bpimage -compress, but I'd rather leave the receny images uncompressed, if I can.
Has anyone used the -cleanup flag, or have any suggestions? The normal compression cycle triggers after every backup "session" - so can I expect these to compress after tonight's backups?
Or does the clock start ticking again from today (the uncompress time), not the backup timt? That would explain why -cleanup didn't do anything...
Thanks
Bill
