true the indexes do get appended after each client's completion, but when you
have 100's of clients and have to find those chunks of indexes off of many
tapes, you realize why many ppl on the list do a savegrp -O (and then you can
do all your saves without indexes (like the -I savegroup flag)
so this keeps you from having to scan all the tapes if you need to do a dr -
you rebuild the index via nsrck -L7 and then you can browse all the savesets
this has been our policy for any datazone whose full take more than a handfull
of tapes
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From: Fazil.Saiyed AT anixter DOT com [mailto:Fazil.Saiyed AT anixter DOT com]
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 1:20 PM
To: EMC NetWorker discussion; Landwehr, Jerome
Cc: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] index cleanup
Hello,
I do not backup indexes via savegrp -O , i am still wondering what i lose in
terms of recovery etc, indexes normally gets backed up after savegrp completes
(& index save is not disabled for the group), is this not enough ??
Thanks
"Landwehr, Jerome" <jlandweh AT HARRIS DOT COM>
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02/08/2008 11:43 AM
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to
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Subject
Re: [Networker] index cleanup
Not sure if there's a documented 'best practice' but this is what I do to cover
all my bases
first I record the client ID in case I need to recreate the client resource to
recover the index so I can make the client ID match what it used to be:
mminfo -q client=[name] -r client,clientid | sort -u >>
deleted.index
then I remove the online index:
nsrck -Y -R [client]
and the (empty) directory:
rmdir /nsr/index/[client]
and finally, remove the client resources via the NW gui
it's very important to do a savegroup -O to back up the index regularly - it
makes recovery _much_ easier!
HTH
Jerry
-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Christophe Dupre
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 11:03 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] index cleanup
Hello,
we are having free space issue in the NSR index directory. We'll be
increasing it shortly, but I need to do some clean up in the meantime.
I have noticed that we still have directories in /nsr/index for servers
that no longer exist and have been removed from the networker
configuration. I am pretty sure that we still have backups that have not
expired for those clients, but I am sure we no longer need to browse
them (and would not be able to as they have been removed from the
configuration).
Can I safely remove the /nsr/index/<oldclient> directory ? I tried
# nsrck -R -Y zeus
but it complains that:
nsrck: File index error: `zeus' is not a registered client
I'm guessing that before removing a client configuration, we should
force the removal of its indices. Which brings another question: is
there a Best Current Practice guide to removing Networker client
configuration ?
Any help or pointers greatly appreciated.
--
Christophe Dupré
Administrateur Unix et Réseau Sénior
(514) 931-4433 x3078
www.accovia.com
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