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Re: [Networker] Stage from tape to tape
2010-10-15 15:34:45
Francis Swasey wrote:
George,
Think of nsrstage as an nsrclone/nsrmm -d pair. That's really all that is
happening under the
covers. If you watch with NMC, when an ssid is being staged (moved) from one
device to
another, it shows up in the listing as a "clone job". Once the clone is
finished, then
NetWorker deletes the pointers to the data on the original media.
The stated purpose of this exercise was to reclaim the tapes that had some bit
of valid data
left on them, therefore, nsrstage seems to be the best use to copy the data to
another tape and
then mark the copy on the original tape as no longer needed.
Since it can't actually delete the data from the source tape(s) like it
could with a file type device, what happens to that affected data? How
is it marked as no longer needed?
We can't actually get that physical space back, so I assume it remains
there on the original tape(s), and NW removes it from the media database
as it would if you'd used 'nsrmm -d -S ssid/cloneid' but the new copy is
still in the media database with the same ssid but a different cloneid?
Do I have that right?
George
Frank
On 10/15/10 12:03 PM, George Sinclair wrote:
Francis Swasey wrote:
On unix (or linux):
mminfo -q 'volume=<tape_volume>,!suspect,!incomplete,!ssrecycle,!recoverable'
-r ssid,cloneid
-xc/ | grep -v ssid | xargs -n1 -t nsrstage -m -v -b '<media pool to write to>'
-S
Fransis, that's interesting. I've never done this, but it makes sense. I've
always just cloned
them to another tape, but that does require having, or creating, a 'clone'
pool, which might be
a nuisance or disadvantage. I guess I never thought of the nsrstage command in
this way. I've
always used it for clearing out save sets on a file type device wherein the
save sets are first
cloned to tape and then deleted from the file type device.
So, it seems that this is a way to copy data from one tape to another without
having to clone
or use scanner with uasm and all that business?
End the end, what is the advantage of doing this versus just, say, cloning
(nsrclone)? I'm
trying to better understand for my future benefit.
Thanks.
George
I suggest you use "man mminfo" and "man nsrstage" to understand the various
arguments.
Frank
On 10/15/10 4:39 AM, kleese2 wrote:
Can anyone tell me what the nsrstage cammand should look like.
I'm planning on staging these savesets one by one and not use a file to define
them.
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