Savesets having the same clone ID - how does the cloneid get generated?

Question

I am currently looking at an issue I have where some savesets get cloned more than once. I'm not really sure as yet what is the cause but my mminfo which generates the list of savesets to clones queries for head or complete fragments with copies=1 and then uses a save -u to ensure everything gets listed only once... What I have noticed though is that the effected savesets tend to have the same cloneid - I have also noticed only a small number of tapes are affected and only one client, and that this seems to be a problem that repeats itself - I have some savesets which cloned three times instead of once. I was curious where the cloneid is generated from and whether this may present some clue to my problem...

DavidHampson · Answer

I guessed it might be a UNIX timestamp and it seemed I guessed correct. Since my cloning script generates a file which is run against nsrclone I guess that is why they have the same cloneid.

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