Hi Kris,
Here are my two cents on this one:
>From the nsrim man page:
"The nsrim program is used to manage the NetWorker online file and media
indexes. Normally, nsrim is
invoked by nsrmmdbd(1m) at startup, by the savegrp(1m) command on completion,
and by nsrd(1m)
when Remove oldest cycle is selected from the NetWorker Administrator program.
nsrim is not normally
run manually. However, the command's modes can be modified such that normal
users may run the command
while retaining root privileges; see nsr(1m) for more details."
and
"nsrim uses policies to determine how to manage online entries. (See
nsr_policy(5), nsr_client(5), and the Legato NetWorker Administrator's Guide
for an explanation of index policies). Entries that have been in an online file
index longer than the period specified by the respective client's browse policy
are removed. Save sets that have existed longer than the period specified by a
client's retention policy are marked as recyclable in the media index."
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So I would say it depends:
- If nsrim -X is invoked BEFORE you save your indexes at night, all savesets
that have passed their browse policy will be removed. In this case, you would
backup a "clean" index.
- In the other case, when nsrim -X runs AFTER you save the index, you will also
retain the "old" information on tape.
Hope this helps,
Tom.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vandecruys Kris [mailto:Kris.Vandecruys AT NBB DOT BE]
Sent: vendredi 5 décembre 2003 11:28
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] index restores
Networkers,
here's a spicey little question:
we take daily backups of our indexes. our general policy is to have 1 month
browse times, and 1 year retention times for a monthly full backup.
sometimes our users need files back older than one month, so we restore the
index of that period with nsrck -L7 to be able to browse the savesets taken in
the monthly backup.
here's the scenario that i wonder about
in July, we restore an index from March
that night, the index is backed up.
in November, we restore the index from July.
is the restored index from March also backup up in the July save ? and hence,
is the March index restored together with the July index in November ?
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Kris Vandecruys (02/221 56.14)
ELPLSPA - Planning, Space Management
National Bank of Belgium
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