No disk space

[giorgiom]

I'm using Arc Serve 9 on W2K Server
I'm backing up to File System Device my target PC.
I'd like to know how I can free space on the disk according the DB pruning operation because the DB pruning free space on the DB only.

Thank you

 

[Cyklops]

Erase or format your file system devices, this will free up space.


regards

 

[giorgiom]

I need something the works in according with the db pruning operation.
I do not need to format all my archive.

 

[Cyklops]

I'm sorry Giorgio, there are packing utilities for the database but they probably will not free up enough space for your purposes. The backup to disk functionality also works on remote disks like mapped drives and removable storage disks. Try to find some solution there or add extra disk space to your backup server.

regards

 

[giorgiom]

I'm sorry but maybe I can't explain what is my problem.
I'm backing up about 30Gb every night on my hard disk.
I set the DB pruning to mantain the data for 6 days.
Every night the data increase of 30GB
After 6 nights, thw DB Pruning clean the db space but the data is not deleted from the hard disk and every night increase of 30GB.
I'd like to know how to delete the old data and free space for the new data on my hard disk.

Thank you

 

[Cyklops]

Giorgio,

there is some misunderstanding on backup to disk and database pruning behaviour.
Backup to disk : the data that normally is backed up to a tape drive is written to disk. This backup data must be treated just like tape data : when you want to free up space on a tape you have to erase or format it.
Database pruning : after a backup job has ended the information of which files-and-folders etc.. (the 'catalog' of the tape contents) is written to the database. The Pruning job only deletes these catalog entries from the database and have nothing to do with the real backup data on the tape (or, in your case, disk).
I hope this clears things a little

regards

 

[NickFerrar]

I haven't tested the DB utilities under v9 yet but on ARCserve 2000 they didn't work. I'm not entirely sure what the pruning does, whether it's supposed to free up space within the database to be reused or simply marks files for deletion for other utilities, I think it's the former but it just doesn't work very well.

In addition to regularly pruning in theory you should regularly pack the DB to, this effectively removes the empty space within the DB and shrinks the DB size accordingly - this is the part I've never got working pre-v9. There are instructions on the utility and it runs OK but all it does is report DB statistics, it never does the actual packing.

For now all I do is every month I initialise the databases to free up the space...