Networker

Re: [Networker] Disturbing anomaly in 8.0 cloning

2012-10-15 11:08:27
Subject: Re: [Networker] Disturbing anomaly in 8.0 cloning
From: Davina Treiber <Davina.Treiber AT PEEVRO.CO DOT UK>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:08:00 +0100
On 15/10/12 12:32, Dag Nygren wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Just investigating why my clone job, which should clone all full savesets 
> that hasn't yet been cloned to tape, but skipped certain savesets and found 
> the following:
> 
> The Clone resource has very simple settings:
> 
> - Make only one copy
> - Filter on Pool: AllPool, Level: full and everything since 6 months ago.
> 
> The preview list is indeed empty...
> 
> But the output of the following command, which should be the same thing, is 
> not empty:
> 
> mminfo -q "copies<2,pool=AllPool,level=full,savetime>6 months ago" -r 
> "client,name,copies,savetime(20),clretent(20),ssid(15),volume,ssflags"
> 
> The command returns all of those savesets that should have been cloned, but 
> were not by the resource.
> Dont't like the idea of of the "Clone resource" leaving certain savesets 
> uncloned...
> 
> Now my questions are:
> 
> - Is this a known bug?
> - Does the media database query from the Clone resource include other 
> criteria?
> - Workaround?
> 
> The Networker version is 8.0.0.3.
> 
> Best
> Dag
> 
> PS! Tried to enter this on support.emc.com, but got hit with 1 million 
> "Internal server error" and gave up...


Have you tried checking the flags of the save sets in your mminfo query?
You might consider !incomplete, !suspect, !ssercycle.