On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:34:10AM -0400, MIchael Leone wrote:
> Is it "nsrmm  -v -o readonly,manual volume"? I figured I would ask, before 
> just plowing ahead and changing something, perhaps wrongly.

The 'readonly' will prevent any new data from being added to the tape,
and the 'manual' will prevent the tape from being recycled
automatically.

> I'm confused 
> as to how to change the retention to "always".

Manual is close, but not the same.  The savesets will expire, but since
the tape isn't eligible for recycling, they shouldn't ever be removed.

But the file indexes will still be purged after the broswe time
expires.  To keep them around, you'd have to reset the browse and
retention policies for the saveset before its purged.

> 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?

Basically, yes.  Setting the times on the savesets involved will do
that.

nsrmm -e/-w <time> -S <SSID>

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