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Setting the NOTSCAN flag on a volume in NetWorker

13 Nov 2014 1 minute read 4161 visits.

nsrim is unable to remove expired savesets which prevents data domain from performing housekeeping and prevents removing any data from the volumes

23 Oct 2014 1 minute read 3503 visits.

In versions of NetWorker 7.4.x and below, it was always possible to use nsrmm to delete savesets that exist on disk backup units

15 Nov 2012 1 minute read 3334 visits.

This can occurs when Relabelling existing or new media via the command line or using the GUI where cartridge barcode differ to the internal label

28 Jul 2007 4 minute read 3678 visits.

A word of caution: before you begin removing a client, make sure you have a recent bootstrap backup; If we make any mistakes we can easily recover

11 Aug 2002 10 minute read 3069 visits.

This article will illustrate the tools, concepts and techniques that you can use to develop your own custom NetWorker index management procedure.

8 Apr 2002 1 minute read 3464 visits.

A NetWorker volume expiration date is set by default at two years from the date that the volume was most recently labelled.

1 Apr 2002 1 minute read 2609 visits.

To verify the integrity of the NetWorker client file indexes use the nsrck command and to verify media database use nsrim.

4 Jan 2001 3 minute read 3384 visits.

This procedure addresses how to reduce the index size by removing the oldest full save set and its dependencies.

4 Jan 2001 1 minute read 3065 visits.

The scope of this post is to provide a procedure resolving a common issue whereby NetWorker does not recycle tapes due to index corruption.

29 Jul 2000 1 minute read 3633 visits.

nsrim be default is executed by nsrd after a savegrp completes it's cycle.