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  • 1.  cfgbak growing exponentially

    Posted May 05, 2022 05:24 AM
    After receiving an alert from our iMC server that space was getting low on C: we found that the folder Program Files/iMC/server/data/cfgbak was using a large amount of space.

    Looking into this it seems that on the first of each month it is creating a folder and copying all files in cfgbak before then creating a zip file of the folder and putting it into cfgbak. However this then means each month it is capturing the zip files from the previous months and bundling them up into the current month.

    The only other reference to this I've found is in the old iMC forum, but there was no definitive solution given: Backup storage growth with MC PLAT 7.3 E0705P07 an... - Hewlett Packard Enterprise Community (hpe.com)

    Has anyone else come across this and found/implemented any kind of solution (i.e. scripted a task to clear out the zip files)?

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    Stuart Luscombe
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  • 2.  RE: cfgbak growing exponentially
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    Posted May 05, 2022 07:16 AM
    Hello there,

    This issue is solved in E0706 version of iMC 

    https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=a00120290en_us

    Hope this helps ypu further!
    Regards,

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    Marina
    HPE
    Sofia
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  • 3.  RE: cfgbak growing exponentially

    Posted May 05, 2022 01:01 PM
    Hello,
    Just a short addiotion to Marina`s comment - the issue is solved in E0706, but the old zip files will remain in iMC/server/data/cfgbak. This means that they must be manually deleted.

    Regards,
    Vasil

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    Vasil Yotov
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  • 4.  RE: cfgbak growing exponentially

    Posted May 06, 2022 03:36 AM
    Thanks both for your replies. I've let my colleague who manages iMC know so we can get it updated to the fixed version.

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    Stuart Luscombe
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  • 5.  RE: cfgbak growing exponentially

    Posted Feb 14, 2025 12:46 PM

    Funny I just discovered it this week :-)  all from 2021.

    I wonder why the directories and then the zip files were created in the first place ?   Silent backupfile archives ?


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  • 6.  RE: cfgbak growing exponentially

    Posted Feb 15, 2025 02:45 AM

    Hello Holger,

    if I remember the problem correctly -  at some point the developers added in the code lines so IMC was performing monthly backup of all cfgfiles and archiving them in zip files.

    Once we found out this problem they removed this feature


    Regards,

    Vasil


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  • 7.  RE: cfgbak growing exponentially

    Posted Feb 18, 2025 04:33 AM
    Edited by HZ-e73c8a Feb 18, 2025 04:38 AM

    Thank you !  cool !  That tells me I can remove the crap w/o danger.   I was wondering  whether I had created those without thinking.... scratching head...   :-)


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