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Re: [Networker] How to reclone a saveset to the same clone volume?

2003-04-30 18:18:28
Subject: Re: [Networker] How to reclone a saveset to the same clone volume?
From: Duncan Boccio <dboccio AT INCYTE DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:17:39 -0700
Hey George,

I think what you want to use is nsrmm. Check out the man page.
I think it's something like:

nsrmm -d -S ssid/clonid

I believe this deletes the ssid/cloneid from the index and
media database and you should then be able to clone the
ssid you want to the same volume.

Duncan

George Sinclair wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a clone volume that contains an aborted saveset called /tmp. I
> would like to re-clone the original /tmp back to this same clone volume,
> but NetWorker will not do it. Instead, it wants to clone /tmp to a new
> clone volume. This does make some sense since I know saveset ids are
> unique per volume, and cloned savesets share the same saveset id as the
> originals; however, I know that cloned savesets also have a clone id,
> allowing them to be identified apart from their other copies. I know
> this can be used when cloning if you want to specify which copy of the
> saveset to clone, e.g. 'nsrclone -b clone_pool -S ssid/cloneid'.
>
> Also, I know that I can list out the index info as: 'mminfo -av -S
> original_volume' wherein it shows all the clones for each of the
> savesets, listing each clone id. Therefore, is there not some way I can
> remove the index entry for the cloned saveset, but somehow keep the
> original, and then re-clone the original saveset back to the same clone
> volume? I'm thinking that since it was aborted, NetWorker might allow
> this? I read the man page for nsrim, but I can't see where it allows you
> to specify that you want to delete the clone id entry and not the
> original. Obviously, though, if you remove the clone volume, that
> removes the entry -- never mind the fact that all the rest of the cloned
> savesets are likewise wiped out -- so it would seem that there should be
> a way to do it without removing the volume. Maybe I can somehow mark
> that cloned saveset 'recyclable' and then remove it?
>
> If not then what happens if you get 99% of the way through cloning a
> volume and then one of the savesets gets aborted? Do you have to
> re-label the clone volume and start all over if you're not willing to
> re-clone the one aborted saveset to another clone volume that doesn't
> yet have that saveset id?
>
> Thanks.
>
> George
> George.Sinclair AT noaa DOT gov
>
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