Troubleshooting

Check Whether Data Protector Functions ProperlyCheck Whether Data Protector FunctionsProperly

The following sections provide an overview of the Data Protector Checking and Maintenance Mechanism and an overview of things to be checked in order to determine whether Data Protector is properly configured in your backup environment.

Data Protector Checking and MaintenanceMechanism

Data Protector provides its own checking and maintenance mechanism, which is performing the following checking and maintenance tasks on a daily basis:

Maintenance

Deletes obsolete DC binary files, sessions, and related messages every

Tasks

 

day at 12:00 (Noon) by default.

 

Finds any free (unprotected) media in pools with the Use free pool

 

 

and Move free media to free pool options set and deallocates the

 

 

found free media to a free pool by issuing the following command

 

 

every day at 12:00 (Noon) by default:

 

 

omnidbutil -free_pool_update

 

 

For more information on the omnidbutil command, refer to the

 

 

omnidbutil man page. For more information on the above mentioned

 

 

options, refer to Chapter 4, “Managing Media,” on page 97.

Checks

Every day at 12:30 P.M. by default, starts checks for the following Data

 

Protector notifications:

 

Database Space Low

 

• Not Enough Free Media

 

Health Check Failed

 

User Check Failed

 

Unexpected Events

 

License Will Expire

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