Thomas,
        Do you have another pool that holds incremental backup data (or
level 1-9 data)? A level full will not expire until all of the dependent
levels have expired.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
On Behalf Of Stan Horwitz
Sent: 12 March 2004 13:25
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Retention Period expired but Volume not ready
for recycling - cor rection


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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