Networker

Re: [Networker] When does changing a browse/retention policy take effect?

2013-05-13 11:47:24
Subject: Re: [Networker] When does changing a browse/retention policy take effect?
From: Rick Brode <rick AT BRODETRAINING DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 09:33:52 -0600
If your main concern is simply freeing space, an easier option might be determine which clients have the largest indexes and then do multiple "remove oldest cycle"s on the savesets consuming the most space.

Rick

On 5/13/2013 9:12 AM, Michael Leone wrote:
I have a question. Suppose I have a client that has a default browse/
retention policy of 6 months. Now I have decided I only need it to be a
browse time of 2 months. (the end goal: I need to free up some space on
the drive where the client indexes are stored)

I will change the browse time in the client definition in NMC, and that is
only for *new* savesets for this client, created from now forward, For
existing savesets, I would need to change find all the savesets older than
2 months, change the browse date to be a date that is now in the past, and
then ...  run "nsrim -X" to expire those 4 months of savesets?