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Re: [Networker] Restore requiring 90 day old tape

2004-09-16 10:03:01
Subject: Re: [Networker] Restore requiring 90 day old tape
From: "GATES, ROBERT L" <robert.l.gates AT PFIZER DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:03:30 -0400
Maarten,

We do a full every week and incrementals daily.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Maarten Boot (CWEU-USERS/CWNL)
[mailto:Maarten.Boot AT nl.compuware DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 8:56 AM
To: Legato NetWorker discussion; GATES, ROBERT L
Subject: Re: [Networker] Restore requiring 90 day old tape


what is your full / incremental schedule
are you regularly repeating full backups (say each month)

try:

mminfo -av -ot -c <client> -q'!incomplete,!ssrecycle'

to see the timeline of your client

Maarten

On Thursday 16 September 2004 15:28, GATES, ROBERT L wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> We have seen this in many instances now.
>
> Our retention periods are 90 days for both incrementals and full backups.
> After doing a full, let's say yesterday, if I try to restore a file the
> volumes required
> include the tape from yesterday and the tape from 90 days earlier.
>
> Why is that earlier tape required? Is there a way to get the restore to
> only use the
> most recent backup tape? Setting the browse time to yesterday makes no
> difference.
>
> We are running 6.3.1 on an HP box.
>
> Bob
>
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