lphilpot wrote:
> 
> > brerrabbit 
> > 
> > Have you looked at the "copies" field in mminfo?
> > 
> 
> Yes - It says "The number of copies (instances or clones) of the save set, 
> all with the same save time and save set identifier."
> 
> I guess what I find curious is that it appears (unless I'm being stupid) 
> to count even failed, recyclable clones as valid copies. Or am I missing 
> something? I would think that an aborted clone should not be counted at an 
> "instance" - I mean, what good is it?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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Well, you're def NOT being stupid, I'd agree that it would be ... err ... 
unusual to care about that, but I can imagine a few scenarios....

In some cases you can recover data from an incomplete or aborted saveset.  In 
fact Preston de Guise had a recent entry on his blog about doing that.  Also, 
consider that some folks like to have their primary copy have a certain 
retention, but the clone a different one, so that might be reason why you'd 
want to filter/search for recyclable savesets.  Not the approach I'd want to 
take, but possible if circumstances backed me into a corner...

--brerrabbit

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