Re: [Networker] volretent in 7.4.x

Frank,
I may be reading your question #7 wrong but if the only save set (/etc) on
the tape has a 3 month retention what are you expecting the volretent to be?
I believe that the volretent period is based on the longest retention period
of any save sets written to the tape.

volretent time 9 The date the last save set on this
volume will expire.

If only want to keep the save set for 3 months but want the cloned save set
for 7 years why would you want to have a 7 year volretent on the Default
tape?




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Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:13 PM
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Subject: [Networker] volretent in 7.4.x

Folks,
  I have been working a problem with EMC since Thanksgiving. And it's 
not going so well.  They are hinting that I've got mediadb corruption -- 
but they aren't saying that...

  What I am doing is using the -y flag on nsrclone to give my clones a 
longer retention time than the original ssid that I'm cloning.  mminfo 
tells me the correct clretent value for the copy on the original volume, 
but tells me the volretent for the original volume (seemingly) based off 
the ssretent value which has the longer time for the copy I cloned and 
sent to the vault.

  EMC tells me they can't reproduce the problem.  I can very reliably 
and I thought I remembered someone else that was talking about volretent 
values being wrong in 7.4 on this list -- of course, I can't find that 
post with the searches I've been doing this morning.

  Here's how I am able to reproduce it.

1) label a tape into the "Default" pool (which I do not use)
2) pick a client and run "save -y '3 months' -b 'Default' /etc" on it to 
create an ssid
3) mminfo -q volume=<volume just used> -r ssid,cloneid
   - get the ssid and clone id
4) nsrclone -b 'Default Clone' -y '7 years' -S <ssid>/<cloneid>
5) mminfo -q ssid=<ssid> -r volume,pool,volretent,ssretent,clretent
   - both volumes will be correct at this point with volretent == clretent
6) nsrim -X
7) mminfo -q ssid=<ssid> -r volume,pool,volretent,ssretent,clretent
   - The volume in the Default pool, will now have volretent == ssretent.

Can anyone verify that I'm not blind deaf and dumb.

-- 
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