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For EMC Ionix ControlCenter(6.1 UB7), what are the zipped DBF files in the repository/oradata/rambdb/archive directory used for?
Looking to see if the ECC/Repository/oradata/rambdb/archive files are used for any active or dependant process for ControlCenter? Currently have 33GB worth of zipped files in this directory alone(2+yrs worth of data); wondering if I need to actually archive this off of an infrastructure server, or just delete to clear up space on the drive?
ConorLawlor
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September 26th, 2011 06:00
Hi Michael,
emc231294
ControlCenter 6.1 UB7: Archives directory contains a large number of Oracle archive files (*.gz); Ramb_hotback.bat is not deleting archive files older than 2 days
Issue looks the same as the above EMC Technical Advisory which was sent out at UB7
because of the compression tool change in ControlCenter 6.1 UB7, the file extension for these arcive files has changed from *.zip to *.gz. Because of this file extension change, the script is failing to delete the files with the *.gz file extension.
Apply the fix or workaround mentioned in the Solution
Regards
Conor
vramabha
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September 23rd, 2011 13:00
These files are for restoring the db.
They should not be deleted manually.
We have daily job, that deletes the obsolete ones.
Thanks
Veena
msumner1
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September 23rd, 2011 13:00
Thank you for the input Veena. This archive directory for our repository is filled with several years worth of 40-50MB backup files(858 total files since 2009), resulting in a 33.3GB archive directory(effectively half of the total amount of storage for this ECC filesystem).
If there is a daily job that deletes obsolete ones, is there a way to find out if that job is running? Or a way to determine which are obsolete(anything pre-2011)?
Thanks again,
Michael
msumner1
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September 23rd, 2011 14:00
Great. I opened technical question SR#43425530 and attached the requested log files to the case.
thank you again
vramabha
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September 23rd, 2011 14:00
Hi Michael
We would need to look at the ramb_hotback.log and ramb_jobstatus.log files in the ramb_scripts folder.
Please send us the logs and we can get back to you after investigating the logs.
Thanks
Veena
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September 26th, 2011 06:00
Fix is solution is the following
download and apply Patch 4754 for ControlCenter 6.1 UB7. Registered EMC customers can download Patch 4754 from http://sps.eng.emc.com/Powerlink at the following location:
Workaround
To work around this issue until the patch can be applied, do the following:
%ECC_INSTALL_ROOT%\repository\admin\ramb_scripts\ramb_hotback.bat
rambdel.exe "%ramboh%\oradata\rambdb\archive" *.zip 2
rambdel.exe "%ramboh%\oradata\rambdb\archive" *.gz 2
Open a cmd window to the to %ramboh%\admin\ramb_scripts folder. Run ramb_hotback.bat to
delete archive files older than 2 days.
msumner1
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September 26th, 2011 07:00
Thank you Conor and Veena for the help, this seems to have resolved the issue until we can apply the service patch 4754. I have made the recommended suggestions based on the solution emc231294