The browse and retention polices are saveset specific. The saveset with
the largest rentention policy on a volume will determine that volume's
status. You could have 200 savesets on a tape and 199 of them will be
recyclable and one will still be browsable for another 4 months. That
tape will not be recycled for 4 more months. 

You can use nsrmm -S ssid -w 03/25/06 -e 03/25/06 to modify the browse
and retention policy of a saveset once it is created. 


Edward Coty
Open Systems Storage Engineering, LCNA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
On Behalf Of Stan Horwitz
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:00 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Networker Newbie

On Mar 23, 2006, at 10:47 AM - 3/23/06, rrevuru AT GMAIL DOT COM wrote:
>
>  Stan: I thought only volumes can be set to "recyclable" but not the 
> "save sets". From the GUI when i click on the volumes, and "show 
> savesets" it doesnt have any information on the expiration date, so is

> "Indexes"
> doesnt
> have any expiration date.
>
> My Basic question was the browse and retention policy and expiration 
> date is is specific to "Volumes" only or they are "Saveset/Index" 
> specific.
>
> Stan..Again my apologies if i sound naive. i am trying to pick. Thanks
>
>> If you wish to manually mark a tape as recyclable, start the 
>> NetWorker administrator gui and (depending on version and platform), 
>> go into the volumes menu, find the tape in question, and then make it

>> recyclable.
>
> I did do change it, and the "expiration date=manual" now, my question,

> is the tape is full now, and how do i say Networker to overwrite it.
> Because it
> keeps printing the error message
> "Waiting for writable volumes"

If you want to enable a full tape that's marked for manual recycling to
be relabled and writable, you need to mark it as recyclable. You did not
say which NetWorker version you're using. Windows and Unix NetWorker
have different GUIs so the specific way to mark a volume as recyclable
depends on which OS platform you are using for your NetWorker server.

I use NetWorker on Solaris (i.e., Sun's Unix) so I am not the best
person to respond to NetWorker server questions in a Windows  
environment. If you're running NetWorker in any kind of a Unix   
environment, you can use the NetWorker Administrator GUI to mark a
manually recyclable tape as recyclable OR you can do it via the command
line with the nsrjb command and the "-o" option. You can also remove the
tape from the media database, but that's not the best option because you
lose information about it such as how many times it was labeled.

Feel free to ask any further questions you may have; that's the purpose
of this list! There's no need to apologize. Everyone on this list had to
learn NetWorker somewhere!

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