Thanks to:
Tom Webster
Brian Hostetter
& John P Speno
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The general thought was to check the Browse Time via the nwadmin
GUI. It was indeed set to 1 month. Many thanks to John who pointed
out that nwadmin does the actual recover for unbrowsable save sets,
not nwrecover.
Thanks again for the help.
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This may seem like a silly question, but what is the "Browse Policy"
setting for your clients? This setting controls how long the on-line
file indexes for backups are retained. The "Retention Policy" defines
how long the backups are kept around before the savesets are marked as
recyclable. Once all of the savesets on a tape are recyclable, the tape
is marked as such.
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What is the retention time on the nsr server set to? How about the expire
time?
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Sounds like your server is configured with a 1 month browse period. You can
change that, but I don't think it will go into effect for existing backups.
You should be able to recover older stuff, but you'll have to use the
nwadmin tool to do so.
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>
>Hello everyone...
>
> I've come to notice a problem with Networker (V4.2A.0) not being
>able to change browse dates back father than about a month. This
>is happening with both the GUI and command line interface. What
>follows is the error:
>
>recover: Current working directory is /tmp/
>recover> cd /var/adm/syslog.dated/
>recover> changetime
>current save time is Mon Apr 26 11:23:39 1999
><return> leaves save time unchanged
>new save time: Mar 18
>cannot browse /usr/var/adm/syslog.dated as of ` 3/18/99 23:59:59'
>
> What I am able to browse is /usr/nsr/index/ for these dates.
>Nothing else seems to even exist anymore. This is happening
>with all clients that we backup, not just one in particular.
>And unfortunately, I can't give a specific date when this started
>to happen.
>
> Thanx in advance for any ideas.
>
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Jim Turner
Systems Administrator
netINS, Inc.
jimt_at_netins.net
(515)830-0365
Received on Mon Apr 26 1999 - 20:34:17 NZST