[Networker] NetWorker Retention Policy Qs?
2008-12-01 20:54:33
Preston,
Did you run these test backups from the command line or within the GUI? I am
not that good with NetWorker yet to come up with such a quick test. Likely
take me an hour to conclude the same thing... setup a group, create new media
pool, label tapes, etc.
Anyways... I noticed the same phenomenon with your first backup. You had a
save-set retention of 12:30:07pm and a clone retention of 11:50:00am. The
save-set took the retention of the clone pool, 50 mins. I would expect these
figures to be reversed... well I did until I understood clone-id. What this
example says to me is the clone-id (this particular instance) will expire at
11:50am and the save-set will expire at 12:30 pm. Because the second instance
(the clone) has an expiration of 50 minutes.
Your test throws me off... I would have thought these save-sets would remain
given the ssretent on this one:
idata idata.001 12/02/2008 11:40:00 AM 12/02/2008
12:30:07 PM 12/02/2008 11:50:00 AM
The retention values on the clones make sense... just as in my example. Did
you look at the volume expiration after you conducted your test? I suspect the
volume would expire at 12:30... (if that was the only save-set on the volume).
Am I making any sense? Perhaps I am not looking at this the right way.
NetWorker says the expiration for my full backup volume will be 11/02/09 rather
than 1/2/09. Like your example.. I have a ssretent of 11/02/09 for my cloned
save sets... Is this a flaw in the program or do I still not understand whats
going on here?
I really appreciate everything you are doing for me... EMC was not as helpful.
Thanks!
PS: Can you walk through your example and explain the logic if it makes sense
to you. Volume expiration is based on ssretent and dependencies...
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