Hi,
Our catalog backup is about 98GB in size and runs for about 3 hours. We are looking at ways of speeding this up and have gone down the compression route. (Netbackup 6.5.0.6 - Windows 2003 R2 Master)
I have appled catalog compression using the recommended "staggered approach" and we have now compressed all images older than 32 days and we have seen the db/images folder reduce in terms of the size on disk from 92GB to 56GB. The problem is that the Catalog backup itself is stil at 98GB and has actually gone up in duration to 3 and half hours. (I know the increase could be dependant on how busy the environment is but sure we should at leaset have seen the backup reduce in size since the compression)
I know its not a complicated process but just want to make sure I havent missed something :
>> Ensure catalog backup isnt running
>> Set catalog compress interval
>> run bpimage -cleanup -allclients
>> Check the db/images folder on completetion and can see a reduction of size on disk and image files in blue to indicate compression.
I cant understand why the catalog backup is still 98GB. Maybe I need to restart Netbackup ? I dont want to suggest this unless I am pretty confident it will resolve the problem as we have to force a window and puts us a behind a little with Vaulting.
Has anyone had something similar and can you advise?
Thanks
Nick
