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Re: [Networker] How to auto recycle tapes..pls advise

2006-10-03 15:39:14
Subject: Re: [Networker] How to auto recycle tapes..pls advise
From: Darren Dunham <ddunham AT TAOS DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 12:32:45 -0700
> In addition to the volretent, I've added ssbrowse in this one. On 7/28
> we switched from doing Quarter/Quarter to Month/Quarter (trying to
> lower the size of the indexes). but the full saveset of this /sge file
> system both browse and retention expired on 9/10.


>    mminfo -q 
> "client=a11ns01.jtc.jcvsf.org,name=/sge,"!"incomplete,"!"ssrecycle" -ot -r 
> volume,level,savetime,ssbrowse,ssexp,volretent
>  volume          lvl  date    browse   expires  expires
> 000042          full 06/10/06 09/10/06 09/10/06 09/10/06
> 000009             1 06/17/06 09/17/06 09/17/06 09/17/06
> 000055             2 06/24/06 09/24/06 09/24/06 09/24/06
> 000068             3 07/01/06 10/01/06 10/01/06 10/08/06
> 000072             6 07/04/06 10/04/06 10/04/06 10/08/06
> 000072             7 07/05/06 10/05/06 10/05/06 10/08/06
> 000072             8 07/06/06 10/06/06 10/06/06 10/08/06
> 000071             9 07/07/06 10/07/06 10/07/06 10/15/06

The full may have expired, but these others that depend on the full
haven't yet.  So the full must be kept around or you wouldn't be able to
recover the machine for that date.  On 10/15, the last dependency
expires and the entire cycle can be released.

Any particular reason you're using multi-level backups instead of just
'incr' backups? 

-- 
Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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