Every saveset has a "ssid" and "cloneid".  Therefore, after you've
cloned, you'll have 2 savesets in your index.  Example:

First saveset would be something like this (ssid/cloneid):

256784594/12345678

Second saveset would look like this:

256784594/98756754

You'll note they have the same ssid, but different cloneid's.

If you do the following, you can delete a saveset, while keeping a
clone:

nsrmm -d -y -S ssid/cloneid -> nsrmm -d -y -S 256784594/12345678

Clone -> 256784594/98756754 would still be in the index.

After that, you'll have to do some index management to clean up:

nsrim -V volume_name

Jerry Rock
Sr. Systems Engineer
Structured Technologies, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
On Behalf Of Tim Verbois
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 5:36 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Cloning

Hello,

one of our clients is working with a backup server with local disk
storage.  They do a backup to disk devices (instead of tape drives) and
have a L9 robot attached to the server too.  Once a month they perform a
full backup and clone this to the tape drive.  After 2 months, the data
has to be removed from the local disk drives, but this is not so easy. 
1 disk device is 400 GB, and a full backup is 100 GB.  They need 4 fulls
to fill a disk drive (but that's 4 months).  How can they remove the
oldest cycle without loosing the clone saveset too?  You can relabel the
volume, but then you have to wait until the last saveset is 2 months old
(and the oldes 6 months). 

-- 
Tim Verbois
EDS-Telindus
Unix Team
02/553.71.73

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