Best way to clear out old image files

[Gary Cooper_1]

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

[Berd]

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

[Berd · Accepted solution]

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

[Tim Nelson]

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.

[Jim Walls]

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.

[Gary Cooper_1]

Hi Guys,

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

Cheers.

Gary