Same issue here: NetWorker 7.5.Build.179 for Solaris
All of my clients have a browse period of 1 month and a retention period of 1
month.
Once per month I run a cloning script to take full backup savesets of
particular clients and clone them into a separate tape pool. When I do the
nsrclone operation, I set the retention and browse period for the clones to
12/31/37, which is "way, way into the future".
Months later, I was noticing that the original source tape volumes were not
expiring.
When I view the list of savesets on the tape that should have become
recyclable, all savesets (except one) have flags "cE", which means "contained
on this volume/Eligible for recycling". The single saveset that differs has
flags "cb" which means "contained on this volume/is in the index and browsable".
Oddly, the client that has this lone differing saveset flags has other savesets
from the same full backup that are "normal".
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I actually wrote a Perl script that I run automatically once a week that finds
these messed-up saveset retention dates and fixes them... I figured that was
easier (for the moment) than getting EMC to fix the issue.
>From the comments in the Perl script:
# 1) Create a list of savesets from pool 'Staging Clone' that have a retention
date of
# 12/31/37
#
# 2) Set the new retention date for the SSID/CLONEID pair using the retention
period set
# in the client's record in Networker
Here is the command that actually resets the retention date:
/usr/sbin/nsrmm -v -S $id_pair -e $date
$id_pair is the SSID/CLONEID pair on the tape volume that I wish would expire
normally (i.e. not the clone I want to keep forever)
$date is the ssinsert date plus the retention policy duration days specified in
the client record.
Ugly, but it works.
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