> From: A Darren Dunham <ddunham AT TAOS DOT COM>
> Reply-To: EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>, A 
> Darren
> Dunham <ddunham AT TAOS DOT COM>
> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:39:09 +0000
> To: <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Use of symbolic names for backups?
> 
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:44:57PM -0400, George Sinclair wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have a question here on the use of the '-N' option with the save
>> command. What is the real value of using this? Does anyone have any
>> advice, admonishments or bad experiences they care to share?
> 
> I think you understand all the technical aspects.  It's just a settable
> field.  I assume most will have no use for it, but it is available for
> some of those odd cases at the price of having to drive over to
> Hackville.
> 
> It's the only user-settable field that you can query in mminfo.  So it
> is possible to stick data in there and be able to find it relatively
> quickly.  I can't think of any other way to do that.

I imagine it might come in handy for those who need to write specialized
scripts that depend on mminfo for output.

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