>On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:18:27AM -0500, Fazil Saiyed wrote:
> What is the best method to remove aborted savesets from the media, as i am 
> running into issues with backups occasionally, this step would help 
> reclaim & recycle media quicker?

Why would it be quicker?  Do you have items on the tape that have
different retention periods?

> I know nsrmm -d with saveset id can do it, however, i am hoping nsrim -X 
> would do it also, i ran the later cmd and did not see it removing the 
> aborted savesets?

nsrmm -d doesn't remove anything from media.  It removes the saveset
information from the media database, but the media is (initially)
untouched. 

If the saveset was aborted, it should already be marked
expired/recyclable.  Confirm with 'mminfo'.  

> The assumption is that the volume may have some browsable savsets and 
> recycling entire tape is not always an option.

Then you can't recycle the tape.  You cannot write to the middle of a
tape without destroying all the data after that point.

If you want to recycle part of a tape, stage or clone the savesets you
do want to keep to other media, then recycle this one.

-- 
Darren

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