George

Tim Mooney wrote:

All-

I'm having a problem with nsrck -L7 for a particular client, and I can't
figure out what I'm doing wrong.  I've used nsrck -L7 dozens of times
over the years, and I don't believe I've ever encountered this particular
issue.

The NetWorker server in question is running 7.4.2 build 431 on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2.  It was upgraded from NetWorker 7.2.2 +
security patches on RHEL 4.x in mid-June.

I need to make a particular client browseable as far back as possible.
The client does monthly fulls, and has a 1 month browse and 1 month
retention policy.  If I run mminfo to see what's available for the
filesystem I care about on the client in question, I see

$mminfo -ot -q 'client=backupclient.nodak.edu,name=/home' -r
'ssid,savetime,nsavetime,ssflags,level'

 ssid        date     save time ssflags lvl
2300354885  05/03/08 1209835659 vrEF   incr
2401083268  05/04/08 1209900932 vrEF   full
2954948539  05/06/08 1210118075 vrEF   incr
3156361666  05/07/08 1210204611 vrEF   incr
3424883546  05/08/08 1210291042 vrEF   incr
3693404862  05/09/08 1210376902 vrEF   incr
3576050683  05/10/08 1210463226 vrEF   incr
3978790056  05/11/08 1210549416 vrEF   incr
2368324781  05/13/08 1210696877 vrEF   incr
3744082439  05/13/08 1210722823 vrEF   incr
3140189003  05/14/08 1210809165 vrEF   incr
2989289701  05/15/08 1210904795 vrEF   incr
2536382245  05/16/08 1210982011 vrEF   incr
1647276730  05/17/08 1211069094 vrEF   incr
674312893   05/19/08 1211183621 vrEF   incr
1748117596  05/19/08 1211246616 vrEF   incr
1077109850  05/20/08 1211327461 vrEF   incr
1026865244  05/21/08 1211414620 vrEF   incr
1194723712  05/22/08 1211500736 vrEF   incr
976706027   05/23/08 1211586849 vrEF   incr
406366199   05/24/08 1211672569 vrEF   incr
339397221   05/26/08 1211812439 vrEF   incr
1211845526  05/26/08 1211845527 vrEF   incr
1480367775  05/27/08 1211932188 vrEF   incr
1648226091  05/28/08 1212018484 vrEF   incr
2185185332  05/29/08 1212106805 vrEF   incr
2537592207  05/30/08 1212192120 vrEF   incr
2923553268  05/31/08 1212277236 vrEF   incr
2504209457  06/01/08 1212363826 vF     full
3326380107  06/02/08 1212450901 vF     incr

and so on, with everything from 06/01/08 onward still being browseable
right now.  I want to be able to browse back to 05/04/08.

Here's what I see when I make a query about the index: saveset for that
client:

mminfo -ot -q
'client=backupserver.nodak.edu,name=index:backupclient.nodak.edu' -r
'ssid,savetime,nsavetime,ssflags,level'
 ssid        date     save time ssflags lvl
1880928342  05/03/08 1209839702 vrEF      9
35506666    05/04/08 1209911786 vrEF   full
3005118368  05/04/08 1209956256 vrEF   full
2602630204  05/06/08 1210121276 vrEF      9
2837597668  05/07/08 1210207716 vrEF      9
3223560138  05/08/08 1210294218 vrEF      9
3458526868  05/09/08 1210379924 vrEF      9
3223730397  05/10/08 1210464477 vrEF      9
3626469722  05/11/08 1210550618 vrEF      9
1999231918  05/13/08 1210702766 vrEF      9
3391763579  05/13/08 1210725499 vrEF      9
2838202360  05/14/08 1210812408 vrEF      9
2804743547  05/15/08 1210908027 vrEF      9
2184063411  05/16/08 1210984883 vrEF      9
1328510980  05/17/08 1211070468 vrEF      9
321992770   05/19/08 1211185218 vrEF      9
1278358464  05/19/08 1211249600 vrEF      9
875786226   05/20/08 1211330546 vrEF      9
808764223   05/21/08 1211417407 vrEF      9
959845139   05/22/08 1211503379 vrEF      9
808935893   05/23/08 1211589077 vrEF      9
70822980    05/24/08 1211673668 vrEF      9
70962992    05/26/08 1211813680 vrEF      9
842747787   05/26/08 1211846539 vrEF      9
1144825346  05/27/08 1211934210 vrEF      9
1446901338  05/28/08 1212020314 vrEF      9
1866420345  05/29/08 1212108921 vrEF      9
2185272571  05/30/08 1212194043 vrEF      9
2571232919  05/31/08 1212278423 vrEF      9
2822986913  06/01/08 1212374177 vrF    full
3141832738  06/02/08 1212452898 vrEF      9
3527794933  06/03/08 1212539125 vrEF      9
3561497286  06/05/08 1212687046 vrEF      9
155747110   06/05/08 1212711718 vrEF      9
4048210651  06/07/08 1212861147 vrEF      9
3796611691  06/08/08 1212920427 vrEF      9
843871550   06/08/08 1212970302 vrEF      9
1229834522  06/09/08 1213057306 vrEF      9
1498356630  06/10/08 1213143958 vrEF      9
911240577   06/11/08 1213230465 vrEF      9
1246873481  06/12/08 1213319049 vrEF      9
1448286243  06/13/08 1213405219 vrEF      9
1851025415  06/14/08 1213491207 vrEF      9
2236985626  06/15/08 1213575450 vrEF      9
2606171623  06/16/08 1213662695 vrEF      9
2975358398  06/17/08 1213750718 vrEF      9
257634899   06/19/08 1213936211 vrEF      9
878465535   06/20/08 1214009855 vrEF      9
1516081979  06/21/08 1214092091 vrEF      9
2120149487  06/22/08 1214179823 vrEF      9
2673884814  06/23/08 1214267022 vrEF      9
3009515160  06/24/08 1214353048 vrEF      9
3177373908  06/25/08 1214439636 vrEF      9
3764662978  06/26/08 1214526146 vrEF      9
3462759933  06/27/08 1214612989 vrEF      9
577163712   06/28/08 1214697920 vrEF      9
711523948   06/30/08 1214840428 vrEF      9
1634301676  06/30/08 1214871276 vrEF      9
1953155425  07/01/08 1214957921 vrF       9
2339118053  07/02/08 1215044581 vrF       9
2741857371  07/03/08 1215130715 vrF       9
2540681938  07/05/08 1215281874 vrF       9
2188437923  07/06/08 1215359395 vrF    full

and so on.

I basically want nsrck -L7 to merge in indexes so that I can browse back
to 05/04/08, where right now I can only browse back to 06/01/08.

I've tried several nsrck -L7 runs, such as

    nsrck -L7 -t 1212278423 backupclient.nodak.edu

and

    nsrck -L7 -t 1209956256 backupclient.nodak.edu

and

    nsrck -L7 -t 1212277236 backupclient.nodak.edu

In every case, the nsrck -L7 completes and I get a message similar to

Recover completion time: Wed Jul 30 18:58:26 2008

nsrck: /var/nsr/index/backupclient.nodak.edu contains 732968 records occupying 139 MB

nsrck: Completed checking 1 client(s)


However, I'm still not able to browse any further back than 06/01/08.

I've even tried changing the (current) browse and retention policy for
this client to "Quarter" and then doing the nsrck -L7, thinking that
perhaps the -L7 was succeeding but the records were just being purged
again immediately, but that didn't make a difference.

It seems like I must be missing something obvious, but I can't figure out
what it is.


Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Tim

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