someguy Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 I need to groom an MS-SQL backup set and am having one helluva time doing it. It hangs when I let it run proactively, it hangs when I try to schedule a groom job, and it hangs when I run a groom job manually... Retrospect window turns white and stops responding and the Windows task manager shows two Retrospect applications, both not responding, and it will hang for literally a week at a time if I let it (I end up having to end task on them so I can continue backups for the other clients.) This is a dedicated backup server, Windows 2003, 4GB of RAM, two dual-core CPUs, with Retrospect Multi-server 7.6.111. (Incidentally, it looks like Retrospect only ever uses one core, as my CPU usage never goes above 25% even when it's obviously pegged and unresponsive.) I have rebuilt the catalog file several times to no avail. Catalog file is only about 30MB, so I don't know why it would take so long to process, especially after being newly rebuilt. I read something in another post that might indicate a corrupted .rbu file due to ending task on the application? But I can't search for "rbu" in the forums because it's only 3 letters long... and the word "corrupt" gives me way too many unrelated results to sift through... not sure where to look any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 Actually it is a corrupt .rdb file you should be searching for. You can use the google search on the right of the forum. Try doing a backup sent transfer of the data to a new backup set and then groom the new set. This would avoid any possible corruption when trying to groom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
someguy Posted September 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 yeah, I knew it was one of those 3-letter words thanks, I didn't see the google field before, I've been using the built-in search at the top. I'm almost out of disk space on the backup array, and the transfer set would exceed the available space (pretty much the reason I need to groom - low disk space.) Am I in a catch-22, or can I somehow transfer just the newest snapshots? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 Yes, you can do a snapshot transfer of just the most recent snapshots. I can't remember if that will include the databases, I think it does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
someguy Posted September 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 excellent - so, basically transfering the needed snapshots to a new backup set was a sort of manual grooming operation - I was able to recycle the old backup set and hopefully got rid of the broken pieces during the transfer. Thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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