removing dump .dmp file

[Former Member]

I'm completely unfamiliar with SAP maintenance and just asked by one of our client about growing SAP partition on windows server that almost full.

I checked with windirstat that there's a few .dmp files about 20gb each under D:\sapbackup\ and under C:\restore\sapbackup\

What are the right procedure to remove those .dmp files?

Thanks.

[hemanth2]

Dear Umarzuki,

Hope you are doing good.

Usually it is a IBM JVM core dump that creates a .dmp file.

It would be a good idea to get this analyzed, as to why this is created. Otherwise, you can completely remove it as it does not serve any other purpose.

Hope this helps.

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Kind Regards,

Hemanth

SAP Product Support

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[Former Member]

any tool to open .dmp file to get it displayed in readable format?

it seems that this client does not renew SAP support contract, only hardware with us

[hemanth2]

Dear Umarzuki,

Hope you are doing good.

Yes, please see SAP note 1883568 and:

<https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/Java/Java+Memory+Analysis>

Hope this helps.

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Kind Regards,

Hemanth

[Former Member]

Hi Umarzuki,

could you please share what is the database you are using. how you have scheduled your backup.

this seems your backup directory and if you are doing backup on these directory. then you should tape-out these data before safely remove.

regards

sunil

[Former Member]

DB used is SQL and backup done manually to tap with Symantec Backup Exec 2012