I have a job in NetWorker 9.1.1.9 that unintentionally cloned twice, each with different retention times. A backup was run and then two clones to tape were made. One clone tape was made with a retention of 10 years and the other clone tape was made with a retention of 1 year.
What is the proper way to get rid of the clone tape with the 1 year retention? We want to keep the clone that has the 10 year retention.
Since the clone copy is on tape volume, then the only way to really "get rid of it" is to relabel the tape volume itself. Since this will also get rid of all data on that tape, then I would advise against deleting it from the media database.
Instead, I would just mark that particular copy as expired. Command is: nsrmm [-y] -o recyclable -S ssid/cloneid
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Posted October 11th, 2018 02:00
You do that by removing the save set using both - the ssid AND the cloneid.
1. Verify what you have:
mminfo -q "ssid= " -r "ssid,cloneid,ssretent,volume"
2. Delete the save set instance:
nsrmm [-y] -d -S ssid/cloneid
3. Verify what you still have:
mminfo -q "ssid= " -r "ssid,cloneid,ssretent,volume"