Re: [Networker] savegroup start on a new tape

BaCha,

 As Tim says, use nsrmm between backups to change the status
of the most recently created backup tape(s).  However, instead
of marking them readonly and/or recyclable, you probably want
to mark them as full.  That way, NetWorker won't pick the tape(s)
for subsequent backup cycles, but will still recycle the tape(s)
according to whatever rules you have in effect.

Terry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Mooney [SMTP:mooney AT DOGBERT.CC.NDSU.NODAK DOT EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 12:55 PM
> To:   NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: [Networker] savegroup start on a new tape
> 
> In regard to: [Networker] savegroup start on a new tape, Ba Cham said (at...:
> 
> >I have a savegroup named full.  It takes little less than a DLT tape to
> >backup the full each time.
> >Can I force the save group to use a new tape each time it starts, rather
> >than continue the existing tape till full and start another tape.
> >This way if I recycle the tape,  I know what I am recycle.  How can I
> >achive this.
> 
> I'm not aware of any automatic way to do this within NetWorker.
> 
> If you're comfortable writing a script in a language like perl or even
> Bourne shell, it would be relatively trivial to accomplish this,
> though.
> 
> Your script needs to use the `mminfo' command to find all tapes (or
> perhaps all "recent" tapes) that contain only full savesets, and then
> your script must use the `nsrmm' command to make the tape manually
> recycleable, and readonly.  Once you've done that, NetWorker will not try
> write to that tape again.
> 
> Tim
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