Hi Vygur,
grep may not help much here
If your 1month retention pool contains savesets with a 6-month retention it is
not because the retention is in the wrong pool. The problem is that the
longer 6-month retention was set on the client. Networker applies the longest
of {client-retention, pool-retention}.
You need to look at the retention on the client definition and the pool but if
the configuration has changed, then you will need to analyse some mminfo
output.
- Use mminfo to print client, ssretent and savetime.
- extract the month from both (see below)
- substract savetime from ssretent
- add 12
- calculate the modulus 12 (the result should be 1 for 1-month retention
savesets and 6 for 6-month retention savesets)
How to extract the month from the date using the (korn) shell.
If date="MM/DD/YY" then use:
month=${date%%/*}
to remove everything after the first slash
Example:
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$ date="01/31/12"
$ echo ${date%%/*}
01
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extract the month from ssretent and savetime on each line of the mminfo output
and substract savetime's MM from ssretent's MM ( the substraction can be
negative, so you need to add 12 and calculate the modulus 12 to get a result
of 1 or 6 -- or else, depending on the retention, but always less than 12 --
assumming that the retention is either 1 or 6 on that 1-month pool)
mminfo -q volume=1monthtape.00001 -r "ssretent,savetime,client" |\
while read ssretent savetime client
do
retent=$(( ( ${ssretent%%/*} - ${savetime%%/*} + 12 ) % 12 ))
echo ${client},${retent}
done
Example: (using a file to simulate mminfo output)
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$ cat /tmp/mminfo.txt
07/30/12 01/30/12 client1
12/30/11 06/30/11 client1
03/20/12 02/20/12 client3
08/20/12 02/20/12 client2
12/30/11 11/30/11 client3
01/20/12 12/20/11 client3
06/20/12 12/20/11 client2
12/30/12 06/30/12 client1
05/30/12 11/30/11 client1
05/30/11 04/30/11 client1
$ cat /tmp/mminfo.txt|\
while read ssretent savetime client
do
retent=$(( ( ${ssretent%%/*} - ${savetime%%/*} + 12 ) % 12 ))
echo ${client},${retent}
done
client1,6
client1,6
client3,1
client2,6
client3,1
client3,1
client2,6
client1,6
client1,6
client1,1
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(note comma-separated output for your boss)
I don't have a Nw server here and cannot test this with savetimes on the 31st
of a month with the retention on a 30-day month.
If you are using Windows, then you can use -xc, to produce csv output with
mminfo and work the ssretent and savetime substractions within excel.
I hope this may help
jee
On Thursday 02 Feb 2012 11:53:37 Vygur wrote:
Hi all,
forgive me for being new.
Im using this command to find why our 1 month retention tapes are not going
into "recyclable" mminfo -avot -q volume=1monthtape.00001 -r "savetime(25),
sumflags, client,clretent, name, volume, volflags, ssflags"
As it turns out the previous administrator set 6month retention in the wrong
pool. so running the above gives me this (all edited of course...)
12/25/11 23:00:19 server 1 01/25/12 /file
1monthtape.00001 12/26/11 01:45:52 server2 01/26/12 /file
1monthtape.00001 12/26/11 04:04:34 Server 3 06/26/12 /file
1monthtape.00001
So what I want to do is find all servers that are set to go to this
1monthtape pool and identify the server names (server 3 in this case) that
are the cause and set up as retention period of 6 months so i can,
generate a report for the manager, and then change them over to the proper
pool (say 6monthtape pool)
or if there is an easy way from the GUI
thanks guys.
PS i just started my job as an analyst dealing with all the backups at
work... so sorry for the newbie questions!
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