Sounds about right, setting the location a something other than your
current library, but I would mark them read only also...

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From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
On Behalf Of Scott Russell
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:35 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Changing the tapes, use mmlocate ?


Stan Horwitz wrote:
> On Feb 3, 2006, at 11:04 AM - 2/3/06, Scott Russell wrote:
>> h, I see now. My saveset retention is three months So you're saying
>> the way to do this is to forget about mmlocate and use nsrmm to set 
>> the tape mode to 'manual' and then unload the physical media. Hmm, I 
>> suppose it's also a good idea to use mmlocate to set the location to 
>> something other than the Jukebox, just for reference.
>>
>> If the tapes are partially full and I set the mode to 'manual' I
>> don't have to worry about Networker asking for the tape at the next 
>> backup?
> Not quite. You would need to set the tapes to full (or mark them as
> read only) AND set them to manual recycle. If you set a tape to manual

> recycle, but leave the other settings alone, it can still receive 
> additional data. Savesets on manually recyclable tapes can also still 
> fall out of their retention period. To prevent the tapes from being 
> reused, another option is to change the saveset retention period to 
> some high limit, perhaps a decade. The best choice of options depends 
> on exactly what you are trying to achieve.

This makes more sense from my understanding of Networker. I don't care 
if the data on the tape falls out of the media / saveset database in a 
few months. My goal is to swap in a complete set of new tapes and to 
have Networker never ask for an old tape UNLESS I need to do a recovery 
off of it. Beyond my short three month rention window I don't care about

the old tapes.

Given that it sounds like my plan should be:

1) mark all tapes as full
2) mark all tapes as manual recycle
3) set the location to something notable
4) remove the physical media
5) label / inventory new media

Given the above I would expect Networker to never ask for the tapes 
unless I needed to recover data from them. In three months when the 
retention period is up the tapes can be dropped from the media database 
before being bulk wiped and trashed.

I think this is sane, and I appreciate the crash course in basics.

-- 
Scott Russell <lnxgeek AT us.ibm DOT com>
IBM Linux Technology Center

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