Automatic Repository Database Shrink

MSP360 Backup Backup Windows
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I backup quite a large number of files and I’ve noticed that my repository database gets quite large (16GB at present).

If I manually shrink the database it typically drops to about 50% of its original size.

A couple of questions regarding this:

  1. Why am I seeing this kind of size bloat?
  2. Is there a way to automatically shrink the database?

I see there is a possible way to do this via the ‘cbb’ command line tool:
cbb repository -shrink

  • Could I create a scheduled task to run this automatically on a weekly basis at a time backups are unlikely to be running?
  • Are there any caveats to running this?
  • If this ran during a backup would bad things happen?
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large number of files

not out of the box

why not

most likely. I would advise carefully testing this in non-production environment first.

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Thanks Alexander,

I have a feature request then for the cbb command.
It would be great if the “cbb status” command had an option to list the status of any currently running jobs; preferably also returning a specific command line ‘errorlevel’ if any jobs were currently running.

This would provide an easily way to check for running backup jobs before executing a repository shrink via cbb.

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[reply=“SamboNZ;11167”] Sure. I will add to the list. Thanks