nsrmm help with duplicate ssid's.

[johnmoore6]

Hi all,
I am running Networker 7.4 sp2 on Linux attached to a VTL and PTL. Normally our mode of operation is to clone twice a month a copy of a "full" for each client to the PTL. But in September we had some problems with the equipment and certain clients' savesets did not make it to tape. So now the saveset status is mark to recyclable, we have 30 day retention on the VTL. I started cloning the ssid's that were available to the PTL and then with the cloneid change the status to browsable(nsrmm -e, and then nsrmm -o). Then I performed an nsrck -L7 on the client, but when I query the database in Network on the client both copies of the ssid have been changed to "browsable". So here is the question, why are both copies changing to browsable, and is there a better way to do this? Thanks in advance. John.

 

[a060463xyz]

you can use nssrmm -S ssid/cloneid to reference to a certain instance of the saveset.
It is not possible to clone/stage a saveset of stus "recyclable".
You have to change the staus to at least recoverable using
nsrmm -e "myDesiredPriod" -S ssid/cloneid.
After you have sucessfully cloned the saveset, change the state ogf the original saveset back to "recyclable" usinf nsrmm -S ssid/cloneid too,
With this syntax its possibel to change only the status of the original saveset.

 

[605]

To a060463xyz: Where did you get the info that "a recyclable save set can not be cloned"? - I just successfully ran a clone on such save set. Or do you mean that this is specific to a VTL?

 

[a060463xyz]

Hallo 605,
with NW 7.4 Sp3 I had errors while staging a saveset from advanced disk device to tape.
The error message in daemon.raw was something like
"can not clone recyclable saveset"
After changing the state of the saveset the staging continued
I did not test a clone but assumed it would be the same behaviour, maybe iam wrong when it comes to cloning only .

Which Version of Networker did you use ?

 

[605]

I also use 7.4.3.

The issue is with the AFTD - recyclable save sets are supposed to be deleted. Therefore it make sense to suppress cloning. However, from your response, a user may get the impression that a recyclable save set can not be cloned in general. This is not true.

 

[johnmoore6]

Guys,
Thanks for the information. I checked it out and a060463xyz you are right, I should have known that.