Networker

Re: [Networker] How to trim the index directories

2010-06-04 11:23:09
Subject: Re: [Networker] How to trim the index directories
From: "STANLEY R. HORWITZ" <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 11:21:47 -0400
On 06 4, 2010, at 11:13 AM, MIchael Leone wrote:
> 
> Thanks; I knew I remembered something like this. The Command Reference 
> states "Removes the oldest full save and all save sets dependant on it 
> from the online
> index. Browse and retention policies are ignored". So ... how do I know 
> what are the "oldest"? Does that mean it keeps only yesterday's backup, 
> and throws everything else away? Or does it mean it throws away the 12 
> oldest savesets (as an example)?
> 
> The description shows like the reverse of what you say - sounds like it 
> doesn't expunge the latest (i.e., newest) savesets, but the oldest. Which 
> is fine, and what I want, but I'd like to be able to tell it to expunge 
> anything older than a specified time (for instance, keep one year's worth, 
> and dump the rest).
> 
> Can you do a "nsrim -l -n", to show you what it would be expunging? 

You would use mminfo for that info. Something along the lines of …

mminfo -v -c some_client -ot

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