On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 12:26:34PM -0500, E Gold wrote:
> I have a bunch of old savesets from 2006 that have the "E" flag, which i
> assume is for expired.
Correct.
> Besides using "scanner -i" or "nsrck -L7" on all those old tapes (hundreds
> of tapes), is there any way to make them browseable again?
Not really. Those are your choices.
> Can I use nsrmm -e or nsrmm -w do do this without scanning?
No. When the browse period expired, the file database (which is
required for browsing) was purged. -e/-w change the dates at which the
purging would occur. They can't recover the data once it's gone.
Changing them at this point can make the filesystem "recoverable", but
not "browseable".
> Also, can someone explain the difference between using "scanner -i" vs
> "nsrck -L7" to me ?
After a backup, the contents of the filesystem are in two places: the
saveset on tape, and in the index on the backup server.
'scanner -i' examines the saveset to recreate the file index of that
saveset. 'nsrck -L7' uses a backup fo the server's index (from a point
in time before the purge). This backup is merged into the current
index.
For backups with large files, the amount of time to scan a saveset can
be very long.
> Why do I sometimes need to use nsrmm -e or nsrmm -w after those?
If the times aren't changed, it might re-purge the information.
> All my clients now have a retention and browse policy of 10 years, but it
> used to be only 1 year when these backups were taken in 2006.
>
>
> Most are filesystem backups but some are NOTES module backups.
Module backups are different. Modules don't really store "files" the
way the standard client does. It serializes a database. So there may
not be a real "file database" behind a module, and it is probably never
browseable.
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Darren Dunham ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
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