Making a Clone tape the primary image

If doing ssid recover you can specify -S ssid/cloneid. ssid/cloneid pair is different for original and cloned instance.

If doing "browsable" recover while original is still there then to use cloned copy you will need to mark original saveset as suspect.

hi,

if you wish to "force" the use of the clone pool as a primary backup (in a restoration point of view), you may invoke the nsrmm command to delete the ssid/cloneid of the "source" save set. please take note that you must specify the ssid/cloneid of the old save set - if you only specified the ssid, then both savesets from both pools will be deleted from the media database.

hope this answered your inquiry of making a clone pool a primary image

thanks,

Delete!? Why would you suggest to anyone to delete saveset? What happens if at certain point in future you wish to revert to original? Using suspect flag is the way to go in this case.

Hi Crvelin,

I was just wondering if you unmount the primary volume (disk in this case) and mount the clone volumes, would Networker not use the clone tapes directly at the time of a browsable recovery?

Regards,
Anuj

I'm not sure with recent versions, but default behavior was to wait forever for primary copy (and I mean forever). Secondary copy would be used only if primary would be marked as suspect. I didn't see anything to suggest that has changed.

I wish there was more intelligence in respect to that; today we see environment based in a way where you different sites play role of offsite copy for other sites. I wish there was a mechanism where if machine A at site A had backup and clone is on site B and machine B asks for restore then clone on site B would be used instead of site A instance. There is of course way how to do that (2-3 different ways actually), but I wish there was no manual work to that - I hope one day engineering will do changes in that respect.

Also, in original question we are talking about ssid that is not browsable anymore.

i deleted the old copy in the media database because we will be decommissioning the old tape library

Certainly not what I would suggest. If you did cloning in past then there is requirement to have secure copy. If two libraries are not compatible that you simply stage original instance to a new library and then you again have two copies.