Uncompressing the NetBackup catalog
You may find it necessary to temporarily uncompress all records that are associated with an individual client. Uncompress the records if you anticipate large or numerous restore requests, for example.
To uncompress the NetBackup catalog on Windows
- Verify that the partition where the image catalog resides contains enough space to accommodate the uncompressed catalog.
- Stop the NetBackup Request Daemon service, bprd.
- Verify that the NetBackup Database Manager, bpdbm, is running.
- In the NetBackup web UI, select Hosts > Host properties.
- Select the primary server and click Connect. Then select the server and click Edit primary server.
- Select Global attributes.
- Clear the Compress catalog interval check box. Then click Save.
- Open a command prompt. Change to the following directory:
install_path\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd
Run one of the followings commands.
To decompress the records for a specific client, enter:
bpimage -decompress -client_name
To decompress the records for all clients, enter:
bpimage -decompress -allclients
- Restart the NetBackup Request Daemon (bprd).
- Restore the files from the client.
- Set the Compress catalog interval to its previous value.
The records that were uncompressed for this client are compressed after the next backup schedule.
To uncompress the NetBackup catalog on UNIX
- Perform the following steps as root on the primary server to uncompress the NetBackup catalog.
Verify that the partition where the image catalog resides has enough space to uncompress the client's image records.
- Stop the request daemon, bprd, by running:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bprdreq -terminate
- Make sure that bpdbm is running:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpps
- In the NetBackup web UI, select Hosts > Host properties.
- Select the primary server and click Connect. Then select the server and click Edit primary server.
- Select Global attributes.
- Clear the Compress catalog interval check box. Then click Save.
- Change your working directory to /usr/openv/netbackup/bin and run the command:
admincmd/bpimage -decompress -client name
- Restart the request daemon bprd. Run the following command:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/initbprd
- Restore the files from the client.
- Set the Compress catalog interval to its previous value.
The records that were uncompressed for this client are compressed after the next backup schedule.
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