How long do you need to retain the data? For ease of restores, it
sounds like changing the browse and retention times for the savesets may
be a better way to go. If you can generate a list of savesets, the
browse and retention times can be altered by doing something like this:
for ssid in $ssids
do
/usr/sbin/nsrmm -S $ssid -w new_browse_time -e new_retention_time
done
After this, the data won't be overwritten and you won't need to run
scanner.
Enjoy.
Teresa
-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of MIchael Leone
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 10:34 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Confused about setting volume to readonly and
manual
(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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