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NBU 7.0 database

Updated: 14 Oct 2011 | 6 comments
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Hello everyone,

 

I am a Solaris NBU user, and im having issues because the size of the DB is increasing, its almost 99% so i need to expand that partition or migrate that database to another partition, maybe someone knows how can i do this???????

 

 

 

Thnaks for the help.

 

 

Regards 

 

Alejandro

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Mark_Solutions's picture
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Do you mean the NetBackup

Do you mean the NetBackup database or the images database?

If it is the NetBackup database have you been backing it up (which will truncate its logs)

If it is the Images then you can move them to another location - several tech notes about for this but let us know which first.

So please clarify exactly what is filling the drive as it could also be the netbackup logs?

Thanks

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NBU

its where the catalog are kept

This is the location

“/opt/openv/netbakup/db/images"

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There are two things you can

There are two things you can do

1. Use the ALTPATH for each image - lots of thread and tech notes for this and needs to be on a per client basis.

2. Move the entire set to a different location that has sufficient space. http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH69970

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ALTPATH is only used for

ALTPATH is only used for Windows.

For Unix/Linux servers, do the following:

To move the image catalog
1 Check that no backups are in progress by running:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpps
2 Stop bprd by running:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bprdreq -terminate
3 Stop bpdbm by running:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpdbm -terminate
4 Create the directory in the new file system. For example:
mkdir /disk3/netbackup/db/images
5 Move the image catalog to the new location in the other file system.
6 Create a symbolic link from /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images to the new
location in the other file system.

......

7 Restart the request daemon, bprd, by running:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/initbprd

(Starting bprd will also restart bpdbm)

 

Copied from p. 683 of Admin Guide for UNIX,Linux, I   http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH127081

Supporting Storage Foundation and VCS on Unix and Windows as well as NetBackup on Unix and Windows.
Handy NBU links

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are you sure its the images

have you checked <installpath>/openv/logs as well?

the 7.0 install set the logging to 6 and could be making very large log files here.

I don't have to know how to spell....I work on Unix.
NetBackup 7.0.1 - AIX & Windows

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Do you aware why its increasing?

 

I just found well explained doc's which talks Recommendation for sizing the catalog and guidelines to size your catalog. 
 
Have a look on this documents before proceeding with extending/moving your images.
 
We are happy, Becasue we dont retain the images for longer time.. :-) 
 
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO56093&actp=search&viewlocale=en_US&searchid=1318622017882
 
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO56068&actp=search&viewlocale=en_US&searchid=1318622017882

Thanks, Karthikeyan Sundaram.