cloning/staging question 1

[ravashaak]

I have a situation where I basically have two volumes with certain save sets on them that (due to company policy) necessitate the erasure of both tapes. However, there are many save sets on these tapes that are not in violation of policy and I'd really like to avoid erasing these permanently.

My thoughts on this are to identify all ssid's on each volume (done), identify the actual "policy-violating" save set ssid's (done), then I'm thinking I can perhaps clone the "good" save sets over to a new tape(s) (probably into a new pool created for this purpose). After that I could do something like delete the ssid's from the original volumes, then erase those offending volumes. I'm guessing that next, I could relabel the now "good" erased tapes and put them back into my backup pool. However, I will also need to stage/clone/??? the save sets I cloned to the new pool, back to my backup pool. Hopefully, once all is said and done, the only clients affected in any way would be the clients to which those offending save sets actually belonged. All other save sets from those two volumes would now be browseable and restoreable.

I could really use some advice on how to actually do this, if it's possible at all. What command syntax should I use? Should the new pool be another backup pool, or a clone pool? What have I missed?

I know I'm asking alot, so thanks in advance.

- Ravashaak

 

[605]

In fact you may clone/stage from any to any - no problem. If you stage (move) a save set, all its information will already be adjusted automatically, no cleanup necessary.
If you do it from the command line, you may also stage to the original pool using the -b option.

However cloning/staging will not affect the save set status.
In other words: Although you just created a new save set instance by this process, it will not become browseable if the save set has already been recoverable. To rebuild the index, you must use the scanner command.

 

[ravashaak]

Thanks 605. I used nsrstage to stage the good save sets to different tapes. I then deleted the two volumes from the media database. After that I disabled two drives within networker, and manually loaded the tapes into those two drives. I used dd (solaris) to zero the tapes. Afterwards, I re-enabled the drives and labelled the tapes as new.

- Ravashaak