Managing the compaction service
The compaction service removes unnecessary data from the MSDP catalog. Use the following procedures to manage the compaction service.
To view the status of the compaction service
- Open an SSH session to the server.
- Run the following command:
dedupe compaction state
To enable or disable the compaction service
- Open an SSH session to the server.
- Run one of the following commands:
dedupe compaction enable
dedupe compaction disable
To start the compaction service outside of the system schedule
- Open an SSH session to the server.
- Run the following command:
dedupe compaction start