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Re: [Networker] reusing clone volumes without affecting original savesets
2009-08-25 19:31:50
On 8/25/09 4:21 PM, Greg Etling wrote:
Davina Treiber wrote:
If you recycle a volume, it will delete all save sets on the
volume, whilst leaving any other clones of those save sets intact. If
you mark a volume as recyclable, it will mark all save sets on the
volume (plus any clones on other volumes) as recyclable. The second
situation is the one you need to avoid.
The first one is not possible to do automatically, although I would
imagine that one could simply relabel the volume manually to achieve
that effect. The second one was previously the method that had been
used, hence the confusion! I have tried setting the clone pool retention
in the pool settings, but it appears to inherit the longer retention
period of the pool from which the saveset was being cloned.
You stated that you are running 7.4.4 -- hence, I suspect that what you are seeing is the
ssretent value which *will* remain at the longer value, what you will really care about is the
clretent value of the copy of the ssid on the clone volume. Also, as you are using 7.4.4, be
aware of LGTsc24106 which will set the volretent incorrectly when you have multiple copies of
the same ssid with different clretent values (and is reported fixed in 7.4.5) -- I've been down
that hole with both 7.4.3 and 7.4.4.
Davina Treiber wrote:
Your best solution will be to change the retention of the clones as you
clone them, then no manual operations will be required. There are a
number of ways to do this.
One method I've noticed since this email is the nsrclone -y switch - It
would appear that if running through a script that 'nsrclone -y "1
month" ' would suffice to set it for the clone without affecting the
original?
That's the equivalent of what I do with my clones (although my clones are for offsite legal
retentions and are much longer than the original copy's retention value).
--
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