Networker

Re: [Networker] what is the ssid for?

2007-10-01 14:24:19
Subject: Re: [Networker] what is the ssid for?
From: A Darren Dunham <ddunham AT TAOS DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 18:15:41 +0000
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 04:43:39AM -0700, nickelj wrote:
> can someone explain to me what the SSID in networker is for

It's a (hopefully) unique identifer for every backup image stored in the
database (Save Set IDentifier).

> or what a high number of ssid's mean?

A high ssid, or a high number of ssids?  A high ssid means nothing.  A
high number of them means you've done a high number of backups.

> The reason for that is, that a colleage said the number of ssid is
> equal to the number of file systems which we backed up.

Not so much in this millenium.  Older versions of networker did use a
more sequential numbering for ssids, but that hasn't been true since at
least 6.0.  The sequential numbering was a problem because it made it
much more likely that you'd have ssid collisions if you needed to import
a foreign tape.

-- 
Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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