Networker

[Networker] Disturbing anomaly in 8.0 cloning

2012-10-15 07:40:31
Subject: [Networker] Disturbing anomaly in 8.0 cloning
From: Dag Nygren <dag AT newtech DOT fi>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:32:18 +0300
Hi all

Just investigating why my clone job, which should clone all full savesets that 
hasn't yet been cloned to tape, but skipped certain savesets and found the 
following:

The Clone resource has very simple settings:

- Make only one copy
- Filter on Pool: AllPool, Level: full and everything since 6 months ago.

The preview list is indeed empty...

But the output of the following command, which should be the same thing, is not 
empty:

mminfo -q "copies<2,pool=AllPool,level=full,savetime>6 months ago" -r 
"client,name,copies,savetime(20),clretent(20),ssid(15),volume,ssflags"

The command returns all of those savesets that should have been cloned, but 
were not by the resource.
Dont't like the idea of of the "Clone resource" leaving certain savesets 
uncloned...

Now my questions are:

- Is this a known bug?
- Does the media database query from the Clone resource include other criteria?
- Workaround?

The Networker version is 8.0.0.3.

Best
Dag

PS! Tried to enter this on support.emc.com, but got hit with 1 million 
"Internal server error" and gave up...