On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Staudenmaier, Thomas (ZKD) wrote:
>
>Hello there,
>
>perhaps someone can introduce me to the secrets of how Networker handles
>retention policies and when volumes are marked as recycleable.
>Here in my setup (W2K, Networker 7.1 Build 320) I have volumes where the
>retention time has been reached but who are not marked eligible for
>recycling:
>
>mminfo -m -q "full,volretent<today"
> volume written (%) expires read mounts capacity
>E 000003 267 GB full expired 0 KB 27 97 GB
> 000004 137 GB full 17.02.2004 0 KB 104 97 GB
> 000006 119 GB full 02.03.2004 0 KB 86 97 GB
>E 000008 268 GB full expired 0 KB 40 97 GB
>E 000011 233 GB full expired 1748 MB 222 97 GB
> 000012 133 GB full 28.02.2004 0 KB 152 97 GB
>E 000019 264 GB full expired 0 KB 10 97 GB
>E 000023 144 GB full expired 0 KB 66 97 GB
>E 000034 57 GB full expired 0 KB 281 97 GB
>E 000036 57 GB full expired 0 KB 78 97 GB
>E 000053 272 GB full expired 0 KB 20 100 GB
>E 000054 195 GB full expired 0 KB 14 97 GB
> 000056 143 GB full 17.02.2004 0 KB 37 100 GB
>E 000058 220 GB full expired 925 MB 295 97 GB
>E 000076 0 KB full expired 0 KB 1 95 GB
> 000091 312 GB full 18.02.2004 0 KB 625 95 GB
>E 000097 270 GB full expired 118 GB 9 95 GB
> 000098 158 GB full 21.02.2004 0 KB 35 95 GB
>E 000108 0 KB full expired 0 KB 3 95 GB
>E 000119 0 KB full expired 0 KB 1 95 GB
>E 000139 0 KB full expired 0 KB 4 95 GB
>
>Today is 12.03.2004 so why are volumes 4,6,12,56,91,98 not ready for
>recycling?
Most likely because one or more save sets on those volumes has
not yet reached the end of its retention period. In order for
a tape to be marked as recyclable, all of its save sets much
also be marked as recyclable. Look at the save sets on those
tapes and you'll probably see what's going on.
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