Pruning Arcserve Database

[NikeGuy23]

HI everyone, I was just wondering if someone could help me out here. I have Arcserve 2000 on a Win2K box. Now we are currently trying to cut down on the amount of space being used and I have noticed that our ArcServe database to be close to 1gig in size. I had the database set at the default 30 days Prune, but since then I have tried 15 and 7 days and the database size stays the same? Any idea on how I can get it to shrink?
Thanks

 

[Cyklops]

Check this :

http://support.ca.com/techbases/as2000/as2k-1521.html

The pruning job doesn't decrease the size of your database.
It just marks the data that is to be pruned as deleted but doesn't remove the data itself. New records written into the database are written over the pruned data. The way to decrease the database is to pack it with the dbdefrag utility.
Pruning and packing together, along with checking the databases with dbcheck helps you keeping your database under control and will help preventing corruption.
Try to schedule this on a regular bases, for example by editing the script files found on :

http://support.ca.com/techbases/as2000/as2k-18200.html

All this information is for the VLDB ( RAIMA ) database, not when you are using SQL as your database

hope this helps

regards