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Reducing the idb size, Reducing the idb – HP B6960-90078 User Manual

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Managing the Data Protector Internal Database

Maintaining the IDB

Chapter 9

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Figure 9-6

Changing Logging Level and Catalog Protection Settings

Reducing the IDB Size

You can reduce the IDB size by changing the catalog protection settings
for a complete backup session (all objects in the session) or for specific
objects only.

The effect of reducing the catalog protection is that browsing is not
possible for some restores (namely of those backups that have exceeded
the catalog protection).

This action does not influence the future growth of the IDB.

When Does the
Change Take
Effect?

The change takes effect:

• If catalog protection is removed from all objects on the medium.

• Once per day (by default, at noon) when Data Protector automatically

removes obsolete data from the IDB. The time can be specified in the

DailyMaintenanceTime

global options variable, using the

twenty-four hour clock notation. Refer to “Global Options File” on
page 523
.

You can start the purge immediately by running the

omnidbutil

-purge -dcbf

command. Refer to the

omnidbutil

man page for

information on removing other obsolete items from the IDB.