Re: [Networker] Can't seem to change browse time

> Michael Leone wrote:
> > I have an old saveset that had expired, but still remained in the 
media 
> > db. So I re-scanned the tapes, in the order shown by the fragflags and 

> > sumflags. I was able to change the retention date to be 7 years in the 

> > future, but can't change the browse date. It says:
> > 
> >> nsrmm  -S 1891137112  -w "84 months"
> > Cannot exceed the browse time of a recoverable save set 1891137112
> > 
> > And I don't see why I can't change it.
> 
> If it's recoverable then it is not browsable. If it's not browsable, 
> then there is no index for the save set, which is why you can't change 
> the browse time.

I just did "scanner -i" on the 2 tapes that hold this saveset, and scanned 
in the order of the saveset, so they should be a (new) index for this 
saveset.

>scanner -s admnman004 -i -S 1891137112 \\.\Tape2147483645
8909:scanner: using 
'rd=admnman012.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov:\\.\Tape2147483645' as the device 
name
8936:scanner: scanning sdlt600 tape 1127154565 on 
rd=admnman012.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov:\\.\Tape2147483645
8939:scanner: sdlt600 tape 1127154565 already exists in the media index
8770:scanner: fn 440 rn 8606 read error No more data is on the tape.

29486:scanner: ssid 1891137112: NOT complete
8786:scanner: ssid 1891137112: 373 GB
8761:scanner: done with sdlt600 tape 1127154565

8921:scanner: the following save sets continue on 1127154446:
client name  save set             save time     level   size  files   ssid 
   S
nt_san1      H:\Users             8/29/08 18:21  f         0      0 
1891137112 B
scanner: when next volume is ready, enter device name (or `q' to quit) 
[rd=admnman012.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov:\\.\Tape2147
483645]?
scanner: starting file number (or `q' to quit) [2]?
scanner: starting record number (or `q' to quit) [0]?
8917:scanner: continuing scan with tape on device 
`rd=admnman012.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov:\\.\Tape2147483645'
8936:scanner: scanning sdlt600 tape 1127154446 on 
rd=admnman012.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov:\\.\Tape2147483645
8939:scanner: sdlt600 tape 1127154446 already exists in the media index
8763:scanner: ssid 1891137112: SYNCHRONIZED at 373 GB, 0 file(s)
29485:scanner: ssid 1891137112: scan complete
8786:scanner: ssid 1891137112: 633 GB, 789644 file(s)

So it should have an index, I think.

> The other potential issue here is that you can't make the browse time 
> longer than the retention time. 

I'm not. I had set the retention time to "85 months" (see below), and the 
browse time to "84 months", so that the browse time would definitely be 
less than the retention time.

> If for example you had scanned it using 
> the -i flag and populated the index you would have a browsable save set. 


I did, and I don't. :-) That's why I'm asking - I did "scanner -i", but 
can't seem to change this browse time. The browse time is 
10/29/2008, which is 2 months later than the savetime. And 2 months is 
what the browse/retention policy was, at the time the saveset was created. 
That's why I am trying to change it.

> You can extend the browse time in that case, but not to longer than the 
> retention. By extending the retention and then a few seconds/minutes 
> later issuing another nsrmm command to extend the browse you would be 
> telling it to use a longer browse than the retention you just specified. 

> To get round this you could issue the -w and the -e in the same command, 

> or try 83 months for the browse instead of 84.

I usually do both "-w" and "-e" in the same command. This is the first 
thing I did, when the "scanner -i" completed.

>nsrmm -s admnman004 -S 1891137112 -w "85 months" -e "85 months"
Cannot exceed the browse time of a recoverable save set 1891137112

Then I tried deliberating setting the browse time to be less than the 
retention time:

>nsrmm -s admnman004 -S 1891137112  -w "84 months"
Cannot exceed the browse time of a recoverable save set 1891137112

Since the retention time did change (to 10/02/2017), I tried to set the 
browse time to be one week less than that:

>nsrmm -s admnman004 -S 1891137112  -w "09/27/2017"
Cannot exceed the browse time of a recoverable save set 1891137112

Now what?

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