Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

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Querying save sets for old and new forever retention time

When the NetWorker server is upgraded to NetWorker 19.3 or later, the save sets with the old forever retention time are not automatically upgraded to the new forever time. Manually modify this to a value according to your requirement.

To obtain the save sets with the old and new forever retention time, use the following commands:


Old Forever Retention Time	New Forever Retention Time
mminfo -avot -q "ssattr=*NSR_OLD_FOREVER_TIME"	mminfo -avot -q "ssattr=*NSR_NEW_FOREVER_TIME"

The mminfo command returns retention time of save sets with old forever retention time as the absolute value of retention time and the retention time of save sets with new forever retention time as a value of forever. For example,

mminfo -avot -q "ssattr=*NSR_OLD_FOREVER_TIME"  -r "client(10), ssid, cloneid, ssbrowse(23)
 ,ssretent(23),clretent(23)"
client   ssid       clone id   browse time        retention time     clone retention time
client-1 4228225810 1577425676 1/19/2038 08:44 AM 1/19/2038 08:44 AM 1/19/2038 08:44 AM

mminfo -avot -q "ssattr=*NSR_NEW_FOREVER_TIME" -r "client(10), ssid, cloneid, ssbrowse(23)
, ssretent(23),clretent(23)"
client   ssid       clone id   browse time  retention time clone retention time
client-1 4211453228 1577430315 forever      forever        forever

NOTE:During the upgrade of the NetWorker server to NetWorker 19.3 and later, the media database is queried for all the save sets with an old forever retention time and are logged under the nsr/logs folder in the file old_forever_retention_savesets-<timestamp>.log of the NetWorker installation.

Following are the save sets which have an older forever retention time of 2147483647 
(Tuesday Jan 19 08:44:06 2038) 
Start time: Mon Dec 16 16:08:23 2019
ClientName                Saveset ID     Saveset Name
                                                     
client-1   15882184       C:\ServerInitIBkp_192
              
client-2   4294072349     C:\ServerInitIBkp_192

Total of 2 records found with an older forever time
End time: Mon Dec 16 16:08:23 2019