> NW can purge a single save set or a volume, deleting the CFI data. 
> The question just is: why would he do so? - So far i have no answer.

Neither do I. Neither does EMC.

What I do know - my client seems to be retaining only 1 day's saveset, not 
for MSSQL: backups, nor normal filesystem backups. 

If I start a GUI saveset recover, I do see previous MSSQL: backups, all 
listed as browseable, to choose from. Yet I can not browse them, using the 
SQL Module GUI. Nor can I browse the filesystem backups, which I also see, 
and are also listed as browsable.

> However, i would look at the save set attribute:
>   - if the save set is "recoverable" or "recyclable", then NW 
> himself must have purged the 
> save set(s)/volume(s)
>   - if the save set is still listed as "browsable", somebody else (a
> scheduled job?) must have deleted the index files/directories

>mminfo -avot -q "client=pssql3,savetime>09/27/2011" -r 
ssid,name,totalsize(2),ssid,savetime(22),ssb

 ssid      name                        total ssid           date     time  
      browse time      ssflags
729969055  MSSQL:                     265 GB 729969055   9/27/2011 9:00:14 
PM 3/27/2012 11:59:59 PM vF
427979557  W:\                       4565 KB 427979557   9/27/2011 9:06:44 
PM 11/27/2011 11:59:59 PM vF
411202384  V:\                        279 GB 411202384   9/27/2011 9:07:24 
PM 11/27/2011 11:59:59 PM vF
327316335  U:\                          4  B 327316335   9/27/2011 9:07:58 
PM 11/27/2011 11:59:59 PM vF
193098643  S:\                         99 MB 193098643   9/27/2011 9:08:34 
PM 11/27/2011 11:59:59 PM vF
92435381   T:\                          2 KB 92435381    9/27/2011 9:09:08 
PM 11/27/2011 11:59:59 PM vF
25326559   F:\                         30 MB 25326559    9/27/2011 9:09:50 
PM 11/27/2011 11:59:59 PM vF
3699538309 MSSQL:                    6674 MB 3699538309  9/27/2011 9:33:54 
PM 3/27/2012 11:59:59 PM vF
3598875071 MSSQL:                    3668 KB 3598875071  9/27/2011 9:34:55 
PM 3/27/2012 11:59:59 PM vF
3582097857 MSSQL:                    3093 KB 3582097857  9/27/2011 9:34:57 
PM 3/27/2012 11:59:59 PM vF
3565320644 MSSQL:                    1496 KB 3565320644  9/27/2011 9:34:59 
PM 3/27/2012 11:59:59 PM vF
3548543430 MSSQL:                      15 MB 3548543430  9/27/2011 9:35:02 
PM 3/27/2012 11:59:59 PM vF
3531766218 MSSQL:                     440  B 3531766218  9/27/2011 9:35:05 
PM 3/27/2012 11:59:59 PM vF
696501024  MSSQL:                     265 GB 696501024   9/28/2011 9:00:15 
PM 3/28/2012 11:59:59 PM vF
595838103  W:\                       4784 KB 595838103   9/28/2011 9:06:29 
PM 11/28/2011 11:59:59 PM vF
579060927  V:\                        285 GB 579060927   9/28/2011 9:07:10 
PM 11/28/2011 11:59:59 PM vF
562283747  U:\                          4  B 562283747   9/28/2011 9:07:46 
PM 11/28/2011 11:59:59 PM vF
528729352  S:\                        100 MB 528729352   9/28/2011 9:08:21 
PM 11/28/2011 11:59:59 PM vF
428066088  F:\                         32 MB 428066088   9/28/2011 9:08:55 
PM 11/28/2011 11:59:59 PM vF
260293980  T:\                          2 KB 260293980   9/28/2011 9:09:47 
PM 11/28/2011 11:59:59 PM vF
3917728315 MSSQL:                    6947 MB 3917728315  9/28/2011 9:30:32 
PM 3/28/2012 11:59:59 PM vF
3800287862 MSSQL:                    3604 KB 3800287862  9/28/2011 9:31:33 
PM 3/28/2012 11:59:59 PM vF
3783510648 MSSQL:                    3158 KB 3783510648  9/28/2011 9:31:35 
PM 3/28/2012 11:59:59 PM vF
3766733435 MSSQL:                    1496 KB 3766733435  9/28/2011 9:31:38 
PM 3/28/2012 11:59:59 PM vF
3749956221 MSSQL:                      15 MB 3749956221  9/28/2011 9:31:40 
PM 3/28/2012 11:59:59 PM vF
3733179009 MSSQL:                     440  B 3733179009  9/28/2011 9:31:44 
PM 3/28/2012 11:59:59 PM vF


If I go to client PSSQL3 and start to do a GUI recover using the SQL 
Module, the only backups it shows that I can choose from are 2008-09-28. 
Those backups shown above, from 2011-09-27? Not showing up as available at 
all, even though they have not expired, and are still browsable for 6 
months yet. Have not run any "nsrim" commands, or marked anything as 
expired, or anything. Just our regularly scheduled "savegrp -O" to save 
the indexes. And no one else has been administering Networker but me.

> BTW - to verify the contents of an index use "nsrls -v -t [n]savetime 
client"

That command does not work.

>nsrls -v -t 09/27/2011 pssql3
usage: nsrls [ { clientname ... | -m } ]

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