On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:49:27AM +0100, Willems, Tom wrote:
> 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."
And also from the nsrck man page:
Level 7 recovers an online file index from backup media,
rebuilds the internal key files, and rebuilds the index
header. The -t date option may be used to recover the index
as of a specific time. Note that recovering the index to a
specific time adds the entire contents of the index as of
that time to the current index contents. This option allows
browsing of save sets that have passed their browse policy
and are still recoverable. The save sets referred to by the
recovered index will be marked as browsable. They will
remain browsable for the length of time they were originally
browsable.
So your newer recovered older indexes would be added to the recent ones,
and would stay that way for 1 month. It would make sense to take from
that that restores of the indexes done for the current month would
include the past indexes as well (as long as it's before their 1-month
re-expiry time.)
Dave
--
Note: To sign off this list, send a "signoff networker" command via email
to listserv AT listmail.temple DOT edu or visit the list's Web site at
http://listmail.temple.edu/archives/networker.html where you can
also view and post messages to the list.
=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=
|