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what are all these bid_files in my netbackup directory?

PaulStevens
Level 4
Partner

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

 

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Anshu_Pathak
Level 5

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.