[Networker] Difference between notrecyclable and manual?

What's the effective difference between:

nsrmm -o notrecyclable volume
nsrmm -o manual volume

Do they both accomplish the same thing?

Also, is there any way to query the media database for volumes that havebeen set to manual recycle and/or notrecyclable?

Of course, the term 'recyclable' or 'notrecyclable' might be betterapplied to save sets than the volume itself, and I understand that avolume can be auto-recycled (which has nothing to do with AMM) once allof its save sets have expired, assuming the volume is in the tapelibrary and is not physically write protected, but the man page fornsrmm specifically states:

"The[not]recyclable mode applies to volumes, save sets and save setclone instances."


but it also states:

"The [not]readonly, [not]offsite, [not]full and [not]manual modes applyonly to volumes."

OK, so you might want to just make a specific ssid/cloneid pairnotrecyclable, rather than all the save sets on the tape, in which casethe notrecyclable option gives you that granularity while 'manual' doesnot. Or you could just use the 'manual' or 'notrecyclable' option forthe volume which would take care of the ssid/cloneid pair in questionalong with everything else on there too, but that might be overkill. Igot that right?

It's been my experience that you can't change an ssid/cloneid pair fromrecyclable to notrecyclable once its past its clone retention time untilyou first set the clretent to a future date using 'nsrmm -e'. Soassuming that's the case, I would think that if you tried to mark avolume notrecyclable, and there was at least one ssid/cloneid pair onthere that had expired then the command would fail since it has to markall the save sets notrecyclable which it would not be able to do untilyou first ran 'nsrmm -e' to set the ones that had expired. But maybe'manual' would work without requiring you to first run 'nsrmm -e'. I gotthat right?


Thanks.

George

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