Re: [Networker] Change of retention

Or you could put as the backup command "save -i", which will ignore any
local directives.

Cheers
Koen

-----Original Message-----
From: Davina Treiber [mailto:Treiber AT HOTPOP DOT COM] 
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 8:54 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Change of retention


Lynsey Wyles wrote:

>
> We have had a further thought regarding freezing the index and mm 
> database info as it currently stands and starting a fresh.  situation 
> below:
>
> To stop the NW services and rename the following two folders: index 
> and mm rename and move to a save location
> Start the NW services which will re-create new empty folders
> Create a new tape pool and retention polices etc as required.
>
> If the frozen database was ever required, stop NW services and put in 
> place the stored index and mm folders, start NW services use for 
> required restore and again switch back when completed!
>
> would this work? any issues?

Yes, this is perfectly possible, I have done it myself.

The only thing I might consider is how to back these stored files up.
NetWorker will skip them due to the directives in local directories. You
might perhaps tar or zip them up, then you can save space and solve this
problem, killing two birds so to speak.

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