On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Stan Horwitz wrote:
Is there any (safe!) way to get these old clients to *stop* using client
licenses? I have no issue with it using a license again if (for some wild
reason) the backup restarts on any of them. We need to keep the old backups
for an 'unknown period of time' due to various reasons.
What's do you mean by "safe?" If the retention period for those clients is
reasonably short, you'll get back each client's license slot when the last
of its backups expires from the client file index. If you can't wait for the
retention period to pass, then manually delete the client file index data
using nsrmm. That approach is what I consider safe, but realize that if you
need to recover any data from those expired clients, you'll need to scan in
the back up media first, which can be very time-consuming.
Recovering a Client license is easy. It requires the following steps:
Delete the Client from your list of clients in NMC or nwadmin
Shutdown networker
cd /opt/nsr/index (or wherever your index resides)
\rm the client + subdirectories
Start networker
wait a few minutes
nsrck -L2
nsrim -X
But as mentioned, you will need to scan if you want the Client back.
We use a method to retire Clients, so that the Index is retained
but in the comment field for the Client we flag it something like
"retired, keep till 31/12/08" or whatever.
Periodically I go through and when there is an appropriate window,
I shutdown Legato and clean up the licenses. As long as you
keep track of your retired Clients, go ahead and delete them
when they reach your own specified date ;)
rachel
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