Analyzing the disc space consumption of the backup images
Use msdpimgutil spacereport command to analyze how much disk space is consumed by the backup images. This utility helps you identify images with unexpected deduplication rates and make a right decision on what images to expire in the event of high deduplication pool space usage.
The msdpimgutil utility is located at the following location:
UNIX:
/usr/openv/pdde/pdcr/bin/msdpimgutilWindows:
install_path\Veritas\pdde\msdpimgutil.exe
Limitations:
The command does not support universal share dump data statistics.
When you run this command to check the data size, do not expire the backup images that you specify in the command input parameters.
Ensure that the expired storage space is reclaimed before you run this utility.
The command does not support the MSDP-Object-Store policy type data statistics.
Run the following command with the required options to analyze the disk space consumed.
msdpimgutil spacereport <[--backup_id_list <backupid list>] [--client <client name>] [--policy <policy name>] [--startdate <start date>] [--enddate <end date>]> [--copynumber <copy number>]
For example,
msdpimgutil spacereport --client sadiexxvmxx.xxx.xxx.veritas.com --policy PCloud --startdate 2023-09-02T01:23:22 --enddate 2023- 12-03T01:23:22 - copynumber 1
To analyze the disk space consumption of the backup images
- Get the size consumed by the specified backup images.
msdpimgutil spacereport --backup_id_list sadiexxvmxx.xxx.xxx.veritas.com_xxxxx02360 sadiexxvmxx.xxx.xxx.veritas.com_xxxxx02243
- Get the size consumed by all the backup images from a specified client.
msdpimgutil spacereport --client sadiexxvmxx.xxx.xxx.veritas.com
- Get the size consumed by all backup images from a specified policy or client and policy.
msdpimgutil spacereport --client sadiexxvmxx.xxx.xxx.veritas.com --policy dirPlocal2
- Get the size consumed by all the backup images between the specified start date and end date.
msdpimgutil spacereport --startdate 2023-09-02T01:23:22 --enddate 2023-12-03T01:23:22