Would extending the browse and retention policies that much require a lot more 
disk space on the Networker server for the indexes? Which one of those policies 
if extended would need more disk space allocated for indexes,etc?

Tony

----- Original Message -----
From: Itzik Meirson 
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 12:14 pm
Subject: Re: [Networker] Extending Browse and retention policies
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU

> Retention can always be changed as this is just an entry in the media
> database.
> Browse can be extended only if it not expired yet, as upon 
> browse time
> expiration relevant indexes are erased.
> For NDMP backups the indexes cannot be rebuilt by scanner, but 
> they may
> be recovered from the indexes savesets if they are still available.
> To change retention and/or browse time you should use nsrmm.
> Make sure you also extend the retention time of the indexes for your
> NDMP client(s).
> To recover and merge old indexes into current ones you can use 
> nsrck -L7
> ClientName.
> Itzik 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Legato NetWorker discussion 
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]On Behalf Of Sid Martin
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 19:03
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] Extending Browse and retention policies
> 
> I have been asked to extend the browse and retention policies (legal
> requirements) on NDMP backups. NW version is 7.1.2 build 325 on 
> Solaris8.
> 
> The browse and retention policy was 1 year. Leagl requirement 
> make them
> 5years now.... can I change the policy on existing tapes?

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