HP Data Protector IDB Purge Best Practices

Setting the time Daily Maintenance runs

The time the Daily Maintenance runs can be changed by the setting Daily Maintenance Time in the

global file.

The Daily Maintenance can be disabled by setting Daily Maintenance Time = 99:99 or none in the

global file.

Note:

Disabling daily maintenance is not recommended by HP, unless alternative

regular arrangements to maintain the DP IDB have been made.

A method to confirm if, and when, Daily Maintenance is being run

Look at the global file for the values of Daily Maintenance Time:

On Windows the file is (default) C:\Program Files\OmniBack\Config\Server\Options\global

On HP-UX the file is /etc/opt/omni/server/options/global

For example if you only see

# DailyMaintenanceTime=HH:MM the daily maintenance is running at 12:00

If you see

DailyMaintenanceTime=99:99 the daily maintenance is disabled

DailyMaintenanceTime=None the daily maintenance is disabled

DailyMaintenanceTime=08:30 the daily maintenance is running at 08:30

If Daily Maintenance is not running

In case Daily Maintenance is disabled consider the following steps:

• In the global file set a time for the daily maintenance to run.

• Manually run the daily maintenance with the command omnidbutil –purge –daily.

• Manually run individual purges that do similar steps to the daily maintenance.

For example

omnidbutil -purge –sessions 30

omnidbutil -purge –messages 10

omnidbutil -purge –dcbf

omnidbutil -purge –mpos