Merge job on recovery points

  • From the Console, click the resources tab.     
  • From the left pane, navigate to Destinations and click Recovery Point Servers.     
  • From the center pane, click the data store that contains the node data that you want to merge.     
  • The Recovery Points Summary page is displayed.     
  • Select the node that you want to merge.     
  • Click Actions, Merge Now.     
  • Note: To merge multiple nodes from a data store, press the Ctrl or Shift key and select the nodes, then click Action, Merge Now.     
  • The Run a Merge Now dialog is opened     
  • Specify the number of recovery points that you want to retain and click OK.    
  • The On-demand merge job is initiated and the node data is deleted from the data source. You can see the status of merge job from Recent Events and logs


Next open command prompt as an administrator and navigate to <install path of Arcserve>\Unified Data Protection\Engine\BIN and run "as_gddmgr.exe -Purge StartToReclaim <datastore name> "

You can run  as_gddmgr.exe -Purge Status <data store name> to check the status of the running job.

You can check the article below for reference:


https://documentation.arcserve.com/Arcserve-UDP/Available/V6.5/ENU/Bookshelf_Files/HTML/Solutions%20Guide/UDPSolnGuide/udp_dedup_2.htm?TocPath=Appendix%7C_____1