Hi Michael,
Before going down the road of marking individual savesets as suspect I'd create
a clone of the tape, take the original out of the library and try a recovery,
see if it requests the original tape or the one that is online in the library
...
The other thing that you could possibly look at is setting the mode of the
original tape to "Offsite" using the command "nsrmm -o offsite tape_volume"
Mat
-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Michael Leone
Sent: Wednesday, 20 March 2013 2:52 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] How to make a duplicate of a tape (was: nsrclone
advice needed)
> Instead of all this marking as suspect, why not send the clone out for
> offsite and keep the original?
That's probably what we will do. It would be easier to just have a second tape
in offsite storage that would never be called back, rather than take chances
with marking things suspect, etc.
We should never need the clone, but just in case, we will have it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> ] On Behalf Of Dag Nygren
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 9:07 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] How to make a duplicate of a tape (was:
> nsrclone advice needed)
>
> On Tuesday 19 March 2013 11:37:35 Michael Leone wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 19 March 2013 11:17:58 Michael Leone wrote:
> > > > > He will use the clone iff you mark the original CFI savesets
> > > > > suspect before you start the CFI recovery.
> > > >
> > > > So I have to mark hundreds and hundreds of savesets suspect?
> > > > Will
> > marking
> > > > the entire volume as suspect do the same?
> > >
> > > You only mark the ones you need to recover as suspect. Why would
> > > you
> > > mark the others?
> >
> > Because I don't know ahead of time which savesets they would be, of
> > course. If I knew, I wouldn't need to do this whole procedure. :-)
>
> Should be fairly easy to find the needed SSID:s with mminfo?
>
> And I checked the man page for nsrmm and you can possibly mark the
> whole volume as suspect too. (And nonsuspect too )
>
> > > > And what happens when I don't
> > > > need my copy anymore, or something happens to it - I have to
> > > > re-mark
> > all
> > > > those saveset IDs as not suspect (would that be "valid"?) before
> > > > I
> > > > can
> > use
> > > > the offsite tape again?
> > >
> > > If you need to use the original again after a recover
> > > (probablility is
> > really
> > > QUITE small) you have to unmark them again.
> >
> > What I want to do is delete the clone, and re-mark the original as
> > the
> > one to use, as the original is supposed to be the master. But that
> > would mean re-marking each of the savesets on that original tape as
> > not suspect, so that if I did need them again in future, I could
> > (without having to remember which savesets have been marked and
> which haven't.
>
> If you delete the clone and there are no other copies of the savesets
> even you old Networker will automatically accept the original, even
> marked suspect.
>
> Best
> Dag
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