Uncompressing the NetBackup catalog
You may find it necessary to uncompress all records temporarily that are associated with an individual client. Uncompress the records if you anticipate large or numerous restore requests, for example.
Use the following procedure to uncompress the NetBackup catalog.
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. Use the Activity Monitor or the Services application in the Windows Control Panel.
- Verify that the NetBackup Database Manager, bpdbm, is running.
- In the NetBackup Administration Console, expand NetBackup Management > Host Properties > Master Server. Double-click the host to be uncompressed.
- Select the Global Attributes properties.
- Clear the Compress Catalog Interval check box and click OK to save the host property change.
- 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.
To uncompress the NetBackup catalog on UNIX
- Perform the following steps as root on the master 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
- Expand Host Properties > Master Servers. Open the properties of a host. On the Global Attributes properties, clear the Compress Catalog Interval check box.
- Set the Compress Catalog Interval Global Attributes property to 0.
- Change your working directory to /usr/openv/netbackup/bin and run the command:
admincmd/bpimage -decompress -client name
- Restart the request daemon, bprd, by running:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/initbprd
- Perform the file restorations from the client.
- Set the Compress Catalog After Global Attributes property to its previous value.
The records that were uncompressed for this client are compressed after the next backup schedule.