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What are those files in the ARCserve\Temp directory?

Database Engine

What are those files in the ARCserve\Temp directory?

by  davidmichel  Posted    (Edited  )
During a backup the database info is written to a xxx.tmp file. At the end of that session the .tmp is changed to .cat and written to tape as the last file in that session. At the end of a backup mergecat.exe is spawned and it will merge into the database all the *.cat files regardless of which job they are from.

So normally when there are no jobs running there should be nothing in the temp directory.

Remaining *.tmp files are an indication of a problem with a backup that resulted in the tmp file not being processed. Any remaining tmp files should be deleted.

If there are remaining *.cat files then run mergecat.exe and see if it merges in all the files. If it stops on a file it might be corrupt so try moving that file out and then run mergecat again.

Here are the mergecat.exe parameters:
Usage : MERGECAT.EXE /F:00000000.CAT /D:[0/1]
/F:CATALOG.CAT - Default is to merge all catalogs
/D:1 - Default is to delete catalog file after merging it
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