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Re: [Networker] Sanity check on mminfo / nsrinfo usage

2010-03-09 04:00:52
Subject: Re: [Networker] Sanity check on mminfo / nsrinfo usage
From: Davina Treiber <Davina.Treiber AT PEEVRO.CO DOT UK>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 08:59:15 +0000
Len Philpot wrote:
> Can someone give me a braincheck on this?
> 
> If I do:
> 
> # mminfo -ar 'nsavetime,sscreate(22)' -c jupiter -N /dir1 -q '!ssrecycle'
> 
> I see a listing thus :
> 
>   save time      ss created
>  1264829064     01/29/10 23:24:24
>  1265094026     02/02/10 01:02:54
>  1265180427     02/03/10 01:02:06
>  1265266822     02/04/10 01:02:07
>  1265353207     02/05/10 01:00:05
>  1265434114     02/05/10 23:28:35
> 
> ...and so on, up to the last backup. These should be all the browseable / 
> recoverable backups for "/dir1" on "jupiter" currently in the database (we 
> keep our browse and recovery policies equal).
> 
> Therefore, running nsrinfo with one of the 'nsavetime' values like this :
> 
> # nsrinfo -t 1264829064 jupiter
> 
> ...spews output thus :
> 
> /dir1/lost+found/
> /dir1/.profile
> /dir1/subdir2/subdir3/more_subdirs/install
> /dir1/subdir2/subdir3/more_subdirs/installer
> /dir1/subdir2/subdir3/more_subdirs/locks/
> /dir1/subdir2/subdir3/more_subdirs/logs/2007-01-05_03-19-55PM.log
> /dir1/subdir2/subdir3/more_subdirs/logs/2007-01-05_03-59-39-PM.log
> /dir1/subdir2/subdir3/more_subdirs/logs/2007-01-05_03-59-39-PM.out
> /dir1/subdir2/subdir3/more_subdirs/logs/2007-01-05_03-59-39-PM.err
> 
> ...for thousands of lines. This output should be a listing of every file 
> backed up for that given savetime, right? And, therefore, if I go through 
> all active savetimes and a given file never shows up, then it was never 
> backed up.  :-)

Yes, if the file was not in any of the save sets then it wasn't backed
up. Were all these save sets full backups? If some were incremental or
level backups you might not see the file you were looking for anyway in
some of them.

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