Re: [Networker] tiny savesets not recycling

I have not seen this but think I'd better check now..  does it happen only
on small savesets?   Chances are, if it seems like a bug, it is.

Are the savesets aborted or incomplete in someway?  In 7.1.1 I can still
get savesets listed as "in-progress' even after nsrim is run. 

Report it to Legato/EMC to see if its known?   The bugs fixed for 7.2.1
are posted . Of course, I don't see this in there.

Robert Maiello
Pioneer Data Systems

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:43:35 -0700, Darren Dunham <ddunham AT TAOS DOT COM> 
wrote:

>I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this.  I'm currently running
>7.1.1 on Solaris.
>
>While tracking down some non-recycled tapes, I found some old
>savesets that have passed the retention period, but are not recyclable.
>
>$ /usr/sbin/mminfo -av -q 'volume=<volume>,!ssrecycle' -r
'savetime,ssretent,level,totalsize,ssid'
>  date    retent    lvl      total ssid
> 06/25/05 07/26/05 incr          4 2008892004
> 06/26/05 07/27/05 incr          4 2176755743
>
>So I've got 2 on this tape, they should have recycled over a month ago,
>but did not.  When I run 'nsrim' on this volume explicitly...
>
>$ nsrim -n -v -V <volume> | grep -- '->'
>2008892004  6/25/05  i         0 files    0 KB browse->recover->recycle->delete
>2176755743  6/26/05  i         0 files    0 KB browse->recover->recycle->delete
>
>So it knows that they're recyclable (and even elegible for deletion
>since there are no files in the saveset), but it hasn't ever changed the
>status of them.  If I run nsrim by hand (without the -n), it'll go ahead
>and mark the savesets recyclable (and the volume as well).  But
>presumably it should have done this already, since scheduled saves have
>been running over the last month.
>
>$ /usr/sbin/mminfo -av -q 'volume=<volume>,!ssrecycle' -r
'savetime,ssretent,level,totalsize,ssid'
>mminfo: no matches found for the query
>
>I didn't see anything about this in either tech bulletins or release
>notes, but I could have missed something.  Has anyone else seen this
>behavior?
>
>Thanks!
>
>--
>Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
>Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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