Maintaining the Spool Database

Maintain the spool database regularly to ensure optimal performance and size. You should perform the following tasks to maintain the spool database regularly:

· Check the consistency of the spool database

· Delete old spool requests

Process Flow

The figure below shows the most important methods of maintaining the spool database:

Scheduling both deletion and the consistency check in the background is preferable to performing these tasks in dialog. Scheduling these tasks in the background ensures the regularity of deletion and of consistency checks. It also eases the workload both of the administrator and of the systems.