Dbdefrag - Work or not?

[cchipman]

So I have been reading through many of the articles in this forum, and I haven't been able to tell the answer to this question, so I'll state it clearly?

Does dbdefrag -v -L arcserve;admin;secret do what its supposed to?

Does it pack the database? This is for (primarily) Arcserve 2000.

 

[rmv]

I've been wondering the exact same thing. Read that it has worked for some users and it has not for others. Going to try it this week-end. Let you know if it's going to work or not. The reason for scheduling it on a week-end is I heard that it takes days to complete.

 

[rmv]

The dbdefrag did not work over the week-end. It was scheduled to kick off on Sat but recieved an error unable to login to the database. Realized this coming in this morning. There was a database corruption on Friday night. I lost patience with this software and just did the recommended option from the other users. I just re-initialized it. Merged the last Full backup tape back into the database. Maybe one day I'll try the dbdefrag.

 

[NickFerrar]

Doesn't work on any of our 10 or so ARCserve servers, I just initialise the database once in a while - would be a lot nicer to be able to automate packing though.