Hi Davina,

This is interesting & confusing.

A tape takes backup of a client with retention of 2 days. When the tape is
full, all save sets get recov by the last 2 days. However, the tape
expiration date visible under the volumes tab in the main GUI for a Windows
2000 NW 7.1 configuration is set to  05/14/2005. Therefore the tape does not
get expired. On this screen the tape mode changes to recyc but expiration
date is 05/14/2005.

We have studied this thouroughly by changing the retention policy of
networker server. The expiration date gets set as per the longest retention
period(either of the clients backed up on the tape or networker
server-whichever is longer). This is because networker server writes index &
bootstrap everytime a backup is taken.

Legato Support Center has suggested backing up indexes & bootstrap on a
different media pool.

Thanks & Regards,
Anuj Mediratta
Ace Data Devices Pvt. Ltd.
I-132, Kirti Nagar,
New Delhi - 110 015.
Phone: 011-32334262
----- Original Message -----
From: "Davina Treiber" <Treiber AT hotpop DOT com>
To: "Legato NetWorker discussion" <NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU>; "Anuj
Mediratta" <anuj AT ACE-DATA DOT NET>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 2:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Networker] Retension issues


> Anuj Mediratta wrote:
> > hi Darren,
> >
> > This is happenning becuase the index & bootstrap saved on the tape set
the
> > expiration date for the tape to 1 year(retention policy set for
Networker
> > Server). The client save sets being backed up get recycled in 3 days
> > (retention policy for the client).
> >
> > Now when the tape is full, it gets marked recyc but does not get expired
as
> > the expiration date is set to 1 year.
>
> Ah! When the tape is full, are you seeing an (R) next to the volume? If
> so, that does NOT mean recyclable, it means read-only, a totally
> different state.
>
>
>
>

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