scsctech Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 (edited) I am hoping to make a grooming schedule that runs from 12:01am on saturday til 4pm on Monday. If I make this schedule Run: Weekly Every: 1 Week On: Saturday, Sunday, Monday End at: Fixed time 4pm will this end the schedule every day at 4pm or just on monday at 4? thanks! Edited March 22, 2010 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 I don't think you can put an *end* on a groom schedule can you? A groom has to run until it's finished -- you can't stop a groom mid-groom. You can start it, but you have to let it finish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsctech Posted March 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2010 It gives the option to stop it at a fixed time. Doesnt groom go one by one through each snapshot in the media set? If I stop the groom half way, wouldnt that have successfully groomed half the snapshots in the set? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted March 24, 2010 Report Share Posted March 24, 2010 No, you've got it backwards, I believe. Grooming preserves the files necessary to support one or more snapshot(s), marks the other files (records) in the media set (database) for deletion, then compacts the database. It's a massive sort problem. All preserved snapshots have to be examined, sorted, and the set of necessary files marked in the media set for retention. And we all know what happens when grooming is interrupted unexpectedly - Retrospect gets mad and trashes things. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted March 24, 2010 Report Share Posted March 24, 2010 What Russ said. You *can* (in my experience) stop a groom process -- but *ONLY* at the point where it's still examining things. If you stop it when it's actually grooming the media set (ie, modifying/deleting member .rdb files), then that may corrupt the media set. Grooming is best left to finish running when you start it, IMO. Why the scripting allows you to stop a groom at a fixed time, I dunno... Robyn? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Stop option in grooming should not exist. You should never stop grooming after it starts. This is a bug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsctech Posted March 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Im just having a hard time with the time it takes to complete a groom process. Sometimes it can take 4 to 5 days and that is way beyond the threshold I want for machines to be waiting to back up. Would you want your company operating for 5 days with no backups whatsoever? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 How large is your media set? (How many files -- not the size?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcarillon Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 I have a media set that contains just over 1.6 million files and is just under 2TB in size. It takes 4.5 hours for the grooming to run. How large is your media set? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 how many past backups? That is the key number. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcarillon Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 17 backups in this particular media set... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 I would do a catalog rebuild and try grooming again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcarillon Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Sorry Robin, I was just saying that the media set that I mentioned grooming in 4.5 hours has 17 backups in it. Obviously the original poster will have to check his media set for his info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsctech Posted March 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 (edited) I have 4 media sets (each one is a partition on a DAS 16tb RAID) Each media set has about 8-10million files. Set A has 1147 backups Set B has 971 Set C has 874 Set D has 891 I am backing up 110 clients and 19 servers in total. I have grooming set to 14 on each set Edited March 25, 2010 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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