Networker

Re: [Networker] Disturbing anomaly in 8.0 cloning

2012-10-15 17:24:02
Subject: Re: [Networker] Disturbing anomaly in 8.0 cloning
From: Dag Nygren <dag AT newtech DOT fi>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:23:17 +0300
On Monday 15 October 2012 16:08:00 Davina Treiber wrote:
> On 15/10/12 12:32, Dag Nygren wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > Just investigating why my clone job, which should clone all full savesets 
> > that hasn't yet been cloned to tape, but skipped certain savesets and found 
> > the following:
> > 
> > The Clone resource has very simple settings:
> > 
> > - Make only one copy
> > - Filter on Pool: AllPool, Level: full and everything since 6 months ago.
> > 
> > The preview list is indeed empty...
> > 
> > But the output of the following command, which should be the same thing, is 
> > not empty:
> > 
> > mminfo -q "copies<2,pool=AllPool,level=full,savetime>6 months ago" -r 
> > "client,name,copies,savetime(20),clretent(20),ssid(15),volume,ssflags"
> > 
> > The command returns all of those savesets that should have been cloned, but 
> > were not by the resource.
> > Dont't like the idea of of the "Clone resource" leaving certain savesets 
> > uncloned...
> > 
> > Now my questions are:
> > 
> > - Is this a known bug?
> > - Does the media database query from the Clone resource include other 
> > criteria?
> > - Workaround?
> > 
> > The Networker version is 8.0.0.3.
> > 
> > Best
> > Dag
> > 
> > PS! Tried to enter this on support.emc.com, but got hit with 1 million 
> > "Internal server error" and gave up...
> 
> 
> Have you tried checking the flags of the save sets in your mminfo query?
> You might consider !incomplete, !suspect, !ssercycle.

Thanks Davina, but I did try that and couldnt really see anything strange there 
:-(


Best
Dag