Uncompressing the Image Catalog

You may find it necessary to temporarily uncompress all records associated with an individual client (for example, if you anticipate large or numerous restore requests). Perform the following steps as root on the master server:

  To uncompress client records

1. Verify that the partition where the image catalog resides has enough space to uncompress the client's image records.
2. Stop the request daemon, bprd, by running:

   /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bprdreq -terminate

3. Verify that bpdbm is running by using:

   /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpps

4. Expand Host Properties > Master Servers. Open the properties of a host. On the Global Attributes page, clear the Compress Catalog Interval check box.
5. Set the Compress Catalog Interval Global NetBackup attribute to 0.
6. Change your working directory to /usr/openv/netbackup/bin and run the command:

   admincmd/bpimage -decompress -client name

7. Restart the request daemon, bprd, by running:

   /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/initbprd

8. Perform the file restorations from the client.
9. Set the Compress Catalog After Global NetBackup attribute to its previous value.

   The records that were uncompressed for this client will be compressed after the backup scheduler, bpsched, runs the next backup schedule.