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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section VIII. Monitoring and reporting
  4. Monitoring NetBackup activity
  5. About the jobs database
  6. bpdbjobs command line options
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

bpdbjobs command line options

The bpdbjobs command interacts with the jobs database to delete or move completed job files. The command line options supersede all other job retention instructions.

The -clean option causes bpdbjobs to delete the completed jobs that are older than a specified time period as follows:

bpdbjobs -clean [ -M <master servers> ]
[ -keep_hours <hours> ] or [ -keep_days <days> ]
[ -keep_successful_hours <hours> ] or
[ -keep_successful_days <days> ]

For example, the following command deletes unsuccessful jobs older than 72 hours.

bpdbjobs -clean -keep_hours 72

More information is available in the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide.

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