howto increase retention of backup/save sets?

[timpie]

Hello,

I have finally completed the backup of my old pc at work.
It took me the whole day to complete it (for only 20GB)
... but now I see that I saved it to a non-desired pool.
It's the "unix daily pool", which has a retention time of
only 6 days !! I need it to be at least one year!
Is it possible to migrate these tapes or savesets to another pool without losing the data ... I'd rather not
start the backup again!

Hopefully an elegant solution exists.

Tim

 

[605]

There is no retention policy/time for a pool - it exists for a save set, no matter in which pool the data has been saved to. The policies are specified for the client only.

What you can do is that you may adjust the terminating DATES for the browse and retention periods (not policies):

1. use mminfo to find out the ssids for all save sets
2. change the dates as follows:
nsrmm [-w “browse_date“] [-e “ret_date“] -S ssid

Be careful how you specify the dates - use the mminfo output as template.

And do not forget to change the policies as well ;-)

 

[HelpNow]

Correct creating a new browse policy to meet your retention is better going forward, however, if you want to do nothing, you can always mark the tape read only, that way it would not be overwritten, in this case even if the online file indexs might get out of retention data, you can always run scanner -i command to re-create them at later date, atleat you wont have to re-run the backups.
What sort of client do you have that it took that long to backup 20 GB ? is the tape system slow or is the client connection and or performace slow?

 

[605]

If you want to be sure not to overwrite the better way is to set the option "Manual recycle" or Recycle manual". This can be done at any time.

"Read only" does not prevent the media from beeing relabeled.