Matthew Powell wrote:
> I have an instance of Legato Networker or EBS 7.4.3. I had a server that
> I was backing up as a test for the Exchange team. I had to remove the
> server from the system in order to backup our current production
> instance of exchange since I had only 1 license for exchange. Now I have
> save sets from the original exchange system I was backing up. I thought
> once I removed the instance of the server that it would clear the save
> sets up but I guess not. I also have a couple of save sets that had a
> year of browse time and retention time while setting this test
> environment up. Now we are pre-prod and I have save sets that are over
> their browse able and recovery window. I have changed the retention
> times in the GUI but have not had any success in getting the system to
> correctly remove these save sets. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks for your time. 
> 
> 
> 
> Matt Powell
> 
> Storage Administrator
> 
> Clemson University
> 
> office : 865-656-0589
> 
> cell: 864-650-8237
> 


nsrmm is your friend.  If all you have on tape[s] is to be deleted - 
nsrmm -d <volume>

If you want to retain the tape but delete only certain saveset[s] from it -
nsrmm -d -S<SSID>[/CLONEID}
note that this tape will not be reusable until ALL savesets get recycled.

read manpage for nsrmm:
===8<===
     -d   Deletes the client  file  indexes  and  media  database
          entries from the NetWorker databases. It can be used in
          conjunction with -S ssid/cloneid to delete  a  specific
          saveset.  Note  that the ssid used can be the long for-
          mat, to avoid ambiguity. The long format of ssid can be
          obtained  by running the mminfo with -r "ssid(53)". The
          mminfo manpage has details of this usage.
           The action does not destroy the  volume:  instead,  it
          removes  all references used by NetWorker to the volume
          and the user files contained on it.  This option can be
          used to control the size of the NetWorker databases.
===8<===

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