Appendix D; Failed_Copies Purge - HP Data Protector IDB Purge Manual

Appendix D

Failed_copies purge

Note:-
This purge is available by default on DP 6.1, but for DP 5.5 and 6.0 it
requires the following patches or their successor.
Data Protector 5.5
Data Protector 6.0
In certain circumstances a DP IDB may hold multiple copies of objects made during a backup. These
unrequired copies may overload an IDB. A special purge omnidbutil -purge_failed_copies
removes any copy of objects that are not required.
The preceding patches include two functions with respect to these multiple unrequired copies of
objects, they allow the running of omnidbutil -purge_failed_copies and the correct the
behavior that caused the multiple copies of objects. For these reasons once this command has been
run it should rarely need repeating.
The command requires exclusive access to the IDB so can only be run when no backups are running
and all GUIs are closed.
When run, this purge updates the RDS.log file.
• On Windows the RDS.log file is, by default,
C:\Program Files\OmniBack\db40\datafiles\catalog
• On HP-UX the debug.log file is: /var/opt/omni/log
Example of messages seen at the command line
omnidbutil -purge_failed_copies
DONE!
Example of the update to RDS.log
[19-Dec-2008 15:32:22] overs read[346766] overs deleted[309] mpos deleted
[179431]
Windows
DPWIN_00396
DPWIN_00385
HP-UX PA Risc
PHSS_38726
PHSS_38404
HP-UX IA 64
PHSS_38727
PHSS_38405
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