On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 16:26:19 -0400, Ciolek, Ken <Ken.Ciolek AT AIG DOT COM> 
wrote:

>I have data on a tape with a Retention and a browsable period of 6 weeks. I
>was just notified by the client they want to keep that data PERMANENTLY. Is
>there a way I can change the Retention period so it will not go intp a
>RECYCEABLE status and would have to SCAN the tape back in.

Yes this is quite easy. Assuming you know the save set ID of each save set
you can run nsrmm to change the retention and/or browse time of each save
set, e.g.
nsrmm -e "10 years" -w "10 years" -S 1234567890

This will prevent the save set from becoming recyclable.

If the save set has already become recyclable (and you still have the
tapes) it is still possible but a little more complicated. First you need
to change the status of the save set like so:
nsrmm -o notrecyclable -y -S 1234567890
then run the other command to prevent it expiring again. This step will
make the save set recoverable but not browsable. If you then want to make
it browsable you can run nsrck -L7 clientname -t whatevertime, asssuming
you still have backups of the index. If you don't have the index backup you
will have to resort to scanner.

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