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Re: [Networker] browsing and retention policies
2009-06-17 05:43:09
Preston de Guise wrote:
These days there are much fewer valid reasons for keeping different
browse/retention policies - I'm not saying there's none, but there's a
lot less than there used to be.
You are correct. Indeed costs have changed, but it still boils down to
making the choice whether to keep the index beyond a certain period. It
depends on the retention and the likelihood of needing a restore. Even
with relatively cheap disk, you still may choose not to keep an index
for a 10 year backup where there is only an outside chance of needing a
restore.
Of course there are more options than just scanner to restore a
non-browsable backup. You can do a save set recover, and optionally
specify the name of specific files to recover, or if you retain index
backups on tape you can restore these for a given date using nsrck -L7;
which is a much more friendly option than scanner.
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