topic Re: Best way to clear out old image files in Operating System - HP-UX

Best way to clear out old image files

Gary Cooper_1 — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:23:49 GMT

I'm having a bit of a spring-clean (well autumn-clean, I suppose) and want to get rid of some of the old Ignite images on my server (that were created using make_net_recovery) to free up some disk space.

Is there an easy (GUI?) way of doing this or if not which files/directories do I need to delete?

Thanks

Gary

Re: Best way to clear out old image files

Berd — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:28:09 GMT

Hi Gary,

From memory, I think there is a config file setting that tells Ignite how many copies of each ignite copy to retain. You could set this accordingly. I'll have a dig around to find the file details for you.

Berd

Re: Best way to clear out old image files

Berd — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:19:51 GMT

Hi Gary,

I think the below link should explain what you are after.

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90772/ch11s07.html?btnNext=next%A0%BB

HTH

Berd

Re: Best way to clear out old image files

Tim Nelson — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:43:53 GMT

If you manually run a client backup from the gui, you should have the option to change the number of archives kept.

or

/var/opt/ignite/clients contains all your client configurations.

you can edit /var/opt/ignite/clients//recovery/defaults file and modify the SAVE_NUM_ARCHIVES

on the next client run it should cleanup.

if not the image files are located in /var/opt/ignite/recovery/archives/

simply delete the image files you no longer need.

Re: Best way to clear out old image files

Jim Walls — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:25:22 GMT

The -n option on make_net_recovery specifies how many archives to keep. You should always have enough space for one additional copy to be able to store the current one before the oldest is deleted.

Re: Best way to clear out old image files

Gary Cooper_1 — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:35:29 GMT

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the help. It was Berd's link that helped me do what I wanted.

Cheers.

Gary