09-02-2014 03:10 PM - edited 03-17-2019 04:26 PM
Hi, running low on space on a particular volume on MPE server and thinking to reduce the backup retention from 4 days to 3 days. Any idea how to do that?
[root@mpe compressed_backup]# du -skh *
358M tape_2014-08-25-23-00-02-Level-0.gz
276K tape_2014-08-26-01-00-03-Level-1.gz
988K tape_2014-08-26-04-00-02-Level-2.gz
1.6M tape_2014-08-26-08-00-03-Level-2.gz
2.2M tape_2014-08-26-12-00-03-Level-2.gz
2.8M tape_2014-08-26-16-00-02-Level-2.gz
3.4M tape_2014-08-26-20-00-02-Level-2.gz
4.2M tape_2014-08-27-01-00-02-Level-1.gz
996K tape_2014-08-27-04-00-03-Level-2.gz
1.5M tape_2014-08-27-08-00-03-Level-2.gz
2.1M tape_2014-08-27-12-00-04-Level-2.gz
2.8M tape_2014-08-27-16-00-03-Level-2.gz
3.4M tape_2014-08-27-20-00-04-Level-2.gz
7.3M tape_2014-08-28-01-00-03-Level-1.gz
988K tape_2014-08-28-04-00-03-Level-2.gz
1.5M tape_2014-08-28-08-00-03-Level-2.gz
2.1M tape_2014-08-28-12-00-04-Level-2.gz
2.8M tape_2014-08-28-16-00-05-Level-2.gz
3.5M tape_2014-08-28-20-00-04-Level-2.gz
359M tape_2014-08-28-23-00-02-Level-0.gz
280K tape_2014-08-29-01-00-03-Level-1.gz
1016K tape_2014-08-29-04-00-02-Level-2.gz
1.5M tape_2014-08-29-08-00-02-Level-2.gz
2.1M tape_2014-08-29-12-00-02-Level-2.gz
2.7M tape_2014-08-29-16-00-02-Level-2.gz
3.3M tape_2014-08-29-20-00-03-Level-2.gz
Thanks,
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09-03-2014 12:24 PM
Hi,
Backup retention is set to 7 days. At one time, you always have 2x Level 0 backups which are being collected every 4 days, while in between you are getting Level 1 and Level 2 backups.
There is no supported way of changing this time. This is configured in a specific file, but you will have to take responsibility of making those changes and any potential consequences. The product is already End of Support, so you won't be able to reach out to TAC if you hit any issues.
Keep in mind that if you have disk space issues, there are different ways to approach freeing up disk space. If you haven't done so already, please, take a look at this article first and clean disk space. You can also check this TechZone post as well.
If nothing here results in increase of disk space, you can proceed with editing the config file, but again, I don't think that is a good idea and it is definitely not supported procedure.
You may need to delete the older files manually at first, but after that I believe Backup process should automatically purge backup files older than 4 or whatever number of days you specified.
I hope this helps.
-Dejan
09-03-2014 12:24 PM
Hi,
Backup retention is set to 7 days. At one time, you always have 2x Level 0 backups which are being collected every 4 days, while in between you are getting Level 1 and Level 2 backups.
There is no supported way of changing this time. This is configured in a specific file, but you will have to take responsibility of making those changes and any potential consequences. The product is already End of Support, so you won't be able to reach out to TAC if you hit any issues.
Keep in mind that if you have disk space issues, there are different ways to approach freeing up disk space. If you haven't done so already, please, take a look at this article first and clean disk space. You can also check this TechZone post as well.
If nothing here results in increase of disk space, you can proceed with editing the config file, but again, I don't think that is a good idea and it is definitely not supported procedure.
You may need to delete the older files manually at first, but after that I believe Backup process should automatically purge backup files older than 4 or whatever number of days you specified.
I hope this helps.
-Dejan
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