HP Data Protector IDB Purge Best Practices

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IDB purging done by the Daily Maintenance
Sessions purge
Expired sessions, older than a certain number of days, are removed from an IDB with the command
omnidbutil -purge –sessions [TimeInDays]
For example omnidbutil -purge –sessions 30 removes all expired protection sessions from
the IDB that are more than 30 days old.
Example of messages seen at the command line
omnidbutil -purge -sessions 30
DONE!
Messages purge
Session messages from expired sessions, older than a certain number of days, are removed with
omnidbutil -purge –messages [TimeInDays]
Example of messages seen at the command line
omnidbutil -purge -messages 10
DONE!
Dcbf purge
omnidbutil -purge –dcbf removes obsolete data from the dcbf part of the internal database.
Example of messages seen at the command line
omnidbutil -purge –dcbf
DONE!
Mpos purge
omnidbutil -purge –mpos ensures the complete removal of any remaining object versions and
media position (mpos) records of data on a media where the data has been overwritten.
Example of messages seen at the command line
omnidbutil -purge –mpos
Starting Purge for formatted medium (-mpos)
Successfully completed Purge for formatted medium (-mpos)
DONE!
omnidbutil -purge –mpos is a new purge introduced in conjunction with a variable
QuickMediaFormat
Note:
The mpos purge and the variable QuickMediaFormat are available by
default on DP 6.11. For DP 6.0 it requires one of the following patches or
their successor. Neither the mpos purge or QuickMediaFormat =1 is
available for DP 6.1. DP 6.1 customers should upgrade to DP 6.11 for this
functionality.