08-07-2018 08:20 AM
I am on NBU 7.7.3 on a RHEL6 server.
What are all the files in my netbackup directory? (enybakalb004 is a media server and enybakalb004-disk is the name of a basic disk storage unit that I use for disk staging prior to tape copies...) but I do not see a bucket load of bid files on my other media servers that use disk staging.
Could they be causing poor performance, leading to a crash? this media server has crashed hard twice in the past week requiring a physical button-push reboot.
Can I or should I get rid of these files?
[root@enybakalb004 /usr/openv/netbackup]# ls -la
total 656
drwxr-xr-x 14 root bin 20480 Jul 23 11:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 root bin 4096 Mar 9 2017 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root bin 4096 May 19 2016 baremetal
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_100_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_101_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 784 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_10_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_102_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_103_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_104_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_105_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 96 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_106_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_107_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_108_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_109_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 69 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_110_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_111_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 355 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_11_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4180 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_1_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_12_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_13_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_14_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_15_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 935 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_16_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 318 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_17_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 404 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_18_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 238 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_19_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 256 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_20_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 373 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_21_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_2_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 211 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_22_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_23_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_24_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_25_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 357 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_26_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_27_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 500 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_28_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_29_21303
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1356 Jan 23 2015 bid_file_enybakalb004-disk_30_21303
08-08-2018 03:29 AM
Bid (Backup ID) files contain list of backupids to duplicate, replicate or import. They are transcational temporary files and should be automatically removed once duplication, replication or import job associated with it is complete. These files are from 2015 and yes you can delete them, it will not cause any problem.