Upgrading from SAS Marketing Automation 4.4 to 5.1 - Index of - SAS

SAS Marketing Automation 4.4 to 5.1 Upgrade Guide
Phase 8 - Housekeeping
Optional - Reclaim Unused Disk Space Using %OMABAKUP
Once you have completed a successful migration, you have the option of reclaiming
disk space used by the migration.
To do this you will need to use the OMABACKUP process to reclaim space in OMR with
a setting that reclaims the space. The information below is taken from the following
document
http://supportexp.unx.sas.com/rnd/eai/openmeta/v91/setup/backup.html#reclaim
When metadata is deleted from a SAS metadata repository,
the record is removed from both memory and disk; however,
the space allocated for the record remains in the data set
after the record is removed. To reclaim unused disk space
left by previously deleted metadata objects from SAS
metadata repositories, you can set the Reorg option in the
%OMABAKUP command. When Reorg="Yes",
%OMABAKUP re-creates repository data sets as
repositories are copied to the backup destination, then
copies the re-created data sets back to the production
location. Because of the overhead associated with recreating
the data sets, you might not want to execute this
option for every backup. The default value is Reorg="No".
Consider using this option on a monthly basis and after large
amounts of metadata have been deleted, such as during the
MA 4.4 upgrade and migration process.
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