Retention in "recovery" directory

[lucmontagne]

Hi,

On a Ignite server, I have just my 2 archive peer Client. And for that it's ok.

My problem is: In the directory /var/opt/ignite/clients/client_name/recovery I have no purge. In order to keep the 2 last directory "2009-11-.." I have many of them.

How configure Ignite (client or server) for just keep the same number than the number of archive?

Sorry for my poor english. I'm an ugly french.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Luc,

There should be a defaults file in the directory /var/opt/ignite/clients/client_name/recovery/

Maximum number of archives to keep. When the number of archives in the destination directory reaches this maximum, make_net_recovery removes the oldest archive. It uses the timestamp in the name of the archive to determine which one to remove.

The user interface also gives users the opportunity to review and edit the
archive_content file as mentioned above. When the user exits the recovery user interface, the default values that the user entered are written to:
/var/opt/ignite/clients/LLA/recovery/defaults

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90772/B2355-90772.pdf

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[lucmontagne]

Hi,

This parameter (SAVE_NUM_ARCHIVES=2) is correctly set.
The recovery location (/archives_ignite/client_name/) is correctly purge whith only the 2 last.
But the directory /var/opt/ignite/clients/client_name/recovery is not.

[Michael Steele_2]

Hi

Do you use the Ignite GUI? If so then you are asked this question, "How many archives to keep", every time you launch the application.

If you want to clean up the recovery sub directory then cd into each and clean them.

[Scot Bean]

It is good that the archive retention is working as expected, since these are the large files.

The other area (/var/opt/ignite/clients/client_name/recovery)is used for logs and configurations and is not so large.

I see this also on my system when:
- recovery does not complete for some reason
- I use the update option (-u) on make_net_recovery

My recommendation: look at the recovery.log files in that path and see if the log shows a failure or a reason why the log/path was not cleaned up.

Once you understand why, you may want to clean up manually, avoiding the ones for the active archives.

[Tim Nelson]

If you look in those old directories you probably will only find a recovery.log file.

If you do not like the old directories then delete them ?

[lucmontagne]

I have a lot of clients and even if these directory are little (about 8M): in fine, it's very big (for my FS)

[Michael Steele_2]

I think you mean 8 GB, please verify.

[lucmontagne]

No, that's that. For each sub directory of : /var/opt/ignite/clients/client_name/recovery