Size of CCM 4.0 backup files (*.tar) keeps increasing

[rmazzagate]

Since building CCM 4.0 in September the tar files were around 600MB. Theve been steadily increaing since then and are up to 1.1GB. I've deleted all the trace files. All I have are 250 devices and 4 gateways.

What can I look for to decrease the size of the backup and keep it down.

[thisisshanky]

Do you have CDR enabled ?

[rmazzagate]

Yes CDR Insert is a running service. Is that why??

[thisisshanky]

Yes. If you have CDR enabled, there is a good chance that your backup size is increasing becasue of this.

[rmazzagate]

Can I clean this up somehow? I went to \\ccm\PF\cisco\calldetail\CDR and there's a little 3K file in there.

[Sascha Monteiro]

records are stored in the CDR database on the publisher.

check the size of it from Enterprise Manager (SQL)

if you have CAR installed, you can purge records.

[thisisshanky]

Here is a way to manually purge it.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps556/products_qanda_item09186a008020650a.shtml#qa2

[CCampbell_2]

As determined elsewhere in the thread, this is probably related to your CDRs. If they are not that important to you, you could disable backing them up in BARS.

[rmazzagate]

I don't see where you can pick and choose what to BU in BARS.

[CCampbell_2]

On my system, BARS 4(0)2, CCM 3.3.4 I can go into the Data Source Servers screen, choose my pub, and on the second page I have an option for including CDRs or not. If you have are running a different version, YMMV