(yeah, I know - he's confused; so what else is new? :-))

Anyway, I have a list of tape volumes that I want to mark as readonly and 
manual recycle (see, we don't use a special job for month end, so in order 
for these tapes to not expire or be marked recyclable, I need to do it 
myself. I've mentioned that we should probably change our practices, but 
that's a different story). I'd also like to have it retain this info 
forever, so that if I did need to do a restore 5 years from now, I 
wouldn't have to do a "scanner -i" on the tape, as I'm having to do now, 
to meet some lawsuit's discovery of old email.

Is it "nsrmm  -v -o readonly,manual volume"? I figured I would ask, before 
just plowing ahead and changing something, perhaps wrongly. I'm confused 
as to how to change the retention to "always".

As an aside, don't I want the retention on my month end tapes to be 
forever? And if so, don't I want the browsing of those same tapes to also 
be forever, so that I cana find just that 1 file in the whole 300G 
saveset? And does that them mean that I want to mark these volumes as 
"archive" (if I'm reading the manual correctly).

-- 
Michael Leone
Network Administrator, ISM
Philadelphia Housing Authority
2500 Jackson St
Philadelphia, PA 19145
Tel:  215-684-4180
Cell: 215-252-0143
<mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>

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