Administration Guide › Managing Existing Catalogs › Discarding Catalogs

Discarding Catalogs

To discard a catalog, enter discard in the Command column of the Manage Existing Catalogs screen next to the catalog you want to delete. CA VM:Backup displays the Discard Catalogs screen. This screen lists the catalog that you selected and all other catalogs that are based on that catalog. No jobs can be running when CA VM:Backup is discarding a catalog.

Discard All Associated Catalogs

When you discard a catalog, CA VM:Backup also discards the catalogs from any incremental backups that are based on the catalog you chose to discard. CA VM:Backup discards these catalogs regardless of the following details:

• The individual auto-condense dates that are defined for those catalogs.
• Whether the catalog that you chose to discard was created during a full or during an incremental backup.

When you discard a catalog that has no other backups that are based on it, CA VM:Backup discards only the specified catalog.

To discard all of the catalogs that are listed on the Discard Catalogs screen, enter yes on the command line.

Processing Guidelines for Auto-Discarding a Catalog

When you specify auto-discarding for a catalog, consider the following factors:

• Specifying an auto-discard period does not protect a catalog from being discarded manually (through the DISCARD command) or from being discarded because its base catalog was discarded.
• If an error occurs while a catalog is being discarded, CA VM:Backup does not discard that catalog.