Just installed 7.6.1 in a sandpit this morning, and had a bit of a play

The scheduled cloning look like it could be a useful feature - although I think 
the functionality is a little limited for use in my environment
1.      I think it would be nice to be able to limit the number of clone jobs 
running at any one time, so you don't potentially consume all of you available 
tape drives with cloning jobs.
2.      Not having the ability to filter clone jobs based on source device I 
think is a major omission, this means that you are potentially going to have 
multiple clone jobs with savesets spread across multiple file devices. 
Potentially causing clone jobs to wait until file devices become available from 
other clone jobs
3.      having the ability to limit a clone job to a specific size or number of 
savesets, so  you can control the amount of time a file device is locked up by 
a cloning job

Interestingly it appears that 
1.      it doesn't appear that you can run a scheduled clone job from the 
command line - not sure if this would really be useful 
2.      An empty scheduled clone (ie nothing to clone) job does not log 
anything to the daemon log file
3.      An empty scheduled clone results in the scheduled clone reporting as 
failed (big red X next to it)

I'm making a bit of an assumption here, but I would have thought that people 
who tend to use scripted cloning, probably also use scripted cleanup scripts - 
rather than staging policies??? I'm still trying to get my head around if you 
were to make the move to scheduled cloning whether you would then also then 
want to use staging policies to recover space from your file devices, or still 
stick with scripted saveset removal. I guess it might be nice to see something 
like a staging policy, but instead of a clone and remove process when a 
high-water mark is reached it just removes savesets that meet certain criteria, 
for me this would just be just if the saveset has been cloned x number of times

Anyway just my initial thoughts and observations ... also wondering how this is 
just a point point release with all the new functionality and bugfixes

Mat 

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of Preston de Guise
Sent: Saturday, 25 September 2010 6:36 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] NetWorker 7.6 SP1

On 25/09/2010, at 02:10 , Eric Carter wrote:

> Those binaries will appear later today.  You'll have to wait a bit longer 
> for the vStorage support.  It is not in the SP1 release.  Here's some more 
> info for the VADP integration https://community.emc.com/thread/100259 and 
> there is a call for beta testing help on the vStorage API integration 
> release here if you at all can help:  
> https://community.emc.com/message/498740
> 

With the binaries now available for download, I've published my review of some 
of the key updates in NetWorker 7.6 SP1 from a core functionality perspective. 
(I didn't personally have much to do with the Data Domain integration testing - 
other colleagues of mine handled that and were pretty happy with it.)

The review is available on the NetWorker Blog for those who are interested:

http://nsrd.info/blog/2010/09/25/networker-7-6-sp1-2/

Cheers,

Preston.

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