> I spoke with EMC Tech Support. I explained that I manually remove 
savesets
> that have been cloned, after a certain number of days (using "nsrmm -d
> -S"), and then reclaim storage using "nsrstage -C -V". 
> 
> >> This is nonsense. What do you want to stage if the save set has 
> already been deleted?

That's how the scripts were set up by EMC Tech Support when we first 
installed NW. :-) It's worked fine for our needs for over 5 years, so why 
change, if the current way does what we need? The savesets are only 
deleted after they have already been cloned, and a certain amount of time 
has passed (anywhere from 2 days to a week, depending on how long we want 
to keep a copy of the savesets around for faster recovers).

> AFAIR if you manually delete a save set it is deleted (space is 
> released) right away.
> Just take a few minutes and test it on a new device.

I don't have a spare snode to test it on. And I don't want to/can't make 
such investigational changes to production storage nodes. Nor is there any 
free SAN space to present as 2 new testing drives.

> 
> 
> I asked about doing
> this explicitly. That if Device #1 was full, and would savesets then
> continue onto Device #2; they said yes. I said "what about when I 
manually
> clear space on Device #1 using "nsrmm -d" and "nsrstage -C -V"; would NW
> then be able to use the now free space on Device #1? They said that NW
> would continue to use Device #2 until it filled up, and then would go 
back
> and use Device #1, since it now had free space. 
> 
> >> Correct with respect to the sequence, wrong for the procedure (see 
above).
> 
> 
> Are you saying that is NOT what would happen? That I would have to
> manually re-label Device #1 before I can use it again? I haven't time 
(nor
> the resources) to test that yet.
> 
> >> Yes, if you want to reuse the whole space, labeling would be the 
> fastest operation.

OK, but I'm not asking what would be fastest; I'm asking if FTD devices 
would just automatically re-use Device #1, since it now had free space. 
That's what the AFTD device does, and what I need to happen. I can't have 
NW just sit there when Device #2 fills up, waiting for me to come along 
and manually re-label Device #1 (which will still have non-expired 
savesets on it that I want to keep around for a while, and therefore the 
whole volume is not recyclable).

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