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[Networker] How best to remove a file from a file type device?

2010-06-16 16:45:02
Subject: [Networker] How best to remove a file from a file type device?
From: George Sinclair <George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:42:16 -0400
Using NW 751. I have a file type device (not advanced, just regular), and some data gets added every day. I have staging set up to stage any save sets older than 14 days. Staging is enabled and checks every 5 hours. But I notice one day that there's some data out there on disk that's older than 14 days. This seemed odd, but new data continued to be added without problems.

So, I manually ran an nsrstage process for one of the ssids, and it worked as far as cloning the saveset to the destination clone pool, but then it issued an error message when it tried to remove the data from the disk:

Cannot find an available nsrmmd service for operation on device 'device_name'.

I then unmounted the device, but when I tried to remount it, I received the same message. Tried several times. Finally, shut down NW, restarted, and now it mounts fine, and again, new data writes to it just fine. From NMC, I had the staging process go and check the file system, and it staged all the older save sets, so it looks like it's working now, but there is still that one older saveset that's still on disk (shows up as something like: 123456789.0), but NW no longer lists it in the media database as being on that file type device/volume, only the clone volume, so it won't stage it - I guess, because it doesn't know it's there?

Since NW doesn't know it's there, can I simply unmount the volume, manually delete the file, and then remount?

I guess I could scan the device, but I don't really need the saveset there since I already have a copy on the clone.

Thanks.

George


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