On 22/06/2010, at 08:06 , brerrabbit wrote:
> 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...


You're probably more looking for "validcopies", an mminfo query parameter that 
was introduced into NetWorker 7.6. The "validcopies" flag reports only on 
complete instances of a saveset. Unfortunately it does still report 2 instances 
for ADV_FILE devices, but particularly for tape/virtual tape, it works a treat 
in determining what how many usable saveset copies you have. (You'll need to be 
running a cumulative patch cluster build for 7.6 - the initial release had a 
few oddities in reporting.)

Cheers,

Preston.

--
Preston de Guise

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Recovery: A corporate insurance policy"





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