EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
06/04/2010 12:00:48 PM:

> In regard to: Re: [Networker] How to trim the index directories, 
MIchael...:
> 
> > "STANLEY R. HORWITZ" <stan AT temple DOT edu> wrote on 06/04/2010 11:42:21 
AM:
> >
> >>
> >> On 06 4, 2010, at 11:38 AM, MIchael Leone wrote:
> >>>
> >>> That shows me everything out there. Is that what this command does -
> >>> delete everything except the very latest saveset? So the only 
history
> > I
> >>> would have left is last night's backup?
> >>>
> >>> Any way to specify how much (i.e., how far back) to expunge? For
> > example,
> >>> any saveset older than 12 months? Doesn't appear to be ?
> >>
> >> nsrim -l will delete the index entries for the OLDest saveset, as
> >> per its man page.
> >
> > Yes, I got that; it deletes the single oldest saveset.
> 
> No, it doesn't!  It does exactly what the man page says it does, first
> sentence:
> 
>         -l     Removes  the  oldest full save and all save sets 
dependant
> on it
>                from the  online  index.
> 
> 
> As I said before, it removes the oldest backup *cycle*.  How
> many savesets are in a cycle is dependent on your environment.

Yes, I did read it. In my environment, all we do is fulls. either daily or 
weekly. So (effectively, and for me) it deletes the oldest savesets.

> 
> > What I was
> > wondering, if there was some way to more robustly delete a range of
> > savesets, ideally with a single command. And it doesn't sppear to be.
> 
> There is, but I really recommend you just stick with nsrim.  You're just
> asking for trouble if you start manually purging individual saveset
> entries.

I don't need to (nsrim -l cleaned up enough space, and removing the index 
folders of non-existent clients freed up even more). But what single 
command does that sort of index cleanup?

I don't consider doing mminfo looks of savesets to purge to be a single 
command; I was wondering if there was a "nsr-cleanup -s 'savetime>1 year'" 
kind of command to delete savesets older than 1 year. I wouldn't want to 
go manually purging savesets willy-nilly, unless there was absolutely no 
other option. :-)

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