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Administering HCL VersionVault
Learn about performing administrative tasks for an HCL VersionVault community including managing software licenses, user and group accounts, VersionVault server and client hosts, shared data, and the network that connects them.
Periodic maintenance
Periodic attention to storage management and repository integrity is an important administrative function. These topics describe VOB and view storage management tasks, the checkvob utility, and the HCL VersionVault scheduler, which you can use to automate many periodic maintenance chores.
About checkvob
VOBs have complex internal and external relationships that can sometimes be disrupted by system or network failures or when a VOB is restored from backup. checkvob is a cleartool subcommand that can find, and in many cases fix, a variety of problems in these relationships.
Using checkvob to find and fix internal VOB inconsistencies
A VOB storage directory contains a VOB database and a number of storage pools. Any operation that modifies VOB data makes changes to the database and at least one pool. When inconsistencies arise between the contents of a VOB database and the contents of its pools, VOB data integrity may be damaged.
Missing and unreferenced data containers
checkvob works to reconcile the contents of VOB storage pools with the information in the VOB database. This reconciliation requires checkvob to categorize data containers based on their relationship to this information.
DO pool: Unreferenced container (debris)

DO pool: Unreferenced container (debris)

Description: Source pool includes a data container that is not referenced by the VOB database. Such containers are classified as debris and moved to the pool’s lost+found directory. (The scrubber does not remove unreferenced DO data containers, only those with zero reference counts.)
Causes: Any of the following, depending on whether the database or the pool has the more recent reference time:
- (Database newer) The pool includes a DO that was subsequently scrubbed.
- (Pool newer) A DO was promoted to the DO pool, but the older database does not record the promotion.
- Unexpected events.
Fix processing: Container moved to pool’s lost+found directory.