{"id":127,"date":"2009-02-16T19:10:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T08:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.wordpress.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2018-12-12T16:32:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T06:32:57","slug":"basics-changing-saveset-browseretention-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2009\/02\/16\/basics-changing-saveset-browseretention-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Basics – Changing saveset browse\/retention times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever need to adjust the browse\/retention time for a saveset, but you’ve not been sure how to do so? Here’s how.<\/p>\n

To change the browse or retention time, you’ll need to find out the saveset ID (SSID) of the given saveset. This can be done with mminfo.<\/p>\n

For instance, say you had a backup done last night of a machine called ‘archon’ that has now been rebuilt, but you want to keep the old backup for much longer than normal – e.g., ten years instead of the normal 3.<\/p>\n

First, to find out what you need to change, get a list of the SSIDs:<\/p>\n

# mminfo -q \"client=archon,savetime>=24 hours ago\" -r name,ssid\n name                          ssid\n\/                              4036558666\n\/Volumes\/TARDIS\/Yojimbo        4019781450\n\/Volumes\/Yu                    4003004234<\/pre>\n
(If you’re confused about that savetime command, see my other post here.)<\/p>\n
Now, for each of those SSIDs that are returned, we’ll run a nsrmm command to adjust the browse and retention time*.<\/p>\n
The basic nsrmm command for adjusting the browse and retention time is:<\/p>\n
# nsrmm -S ssid -w browse -e retent<\/pre>\n
or, for a single instance of a saveset:<\/p>\n
# nsrmm -S ssid\/cloneid -w browse -e retent<\/pre>\n
Where the ‘browse’ and ‘retent’ values can be either one of the two following:<\/p>\n
    \n
  • A literal date in US date format ** \u2013 e.g., “12\/31\/2019” for 31 December 2019.<\/li>\n
  • A ‘fuzzy’ english worded date \u2013 e.g., “+10 years” for 10 years from today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
    Note that (rather obviously), your browse time cannot exceed your retention time, and generally its recommended that you set browse time to retention time.<\/p>\n
    So in this case, you’d run for each SSID or SSID\/CloneID you want to affect:<\/p>\n
    # nsrmm -S ssid -w \"+10 years\" -e \"+10 years\"<\/pre>\n
    Which will look like the following, based on my mminfo output:<\/p>\n
    # nsrmm -S 4036558666 -w \"+10 years\" -e \"+10 years\"\n# nsrmm -S 4019781450 -w \"+10 years\" -e \"+10 years\"\n# nsrmm -S 4003004234 -w \"+10 years\" -e \"+10 years\"<\/pre>\n
    It’s that simple.<\/p>\n
    —
    \n* You can also do this against an instance of a saveset by using the SSID\/Clone ID; to do that variant, request “-r name,ssid,cloneid”, then use the two numbers in the nsrmm command separated by a forward slash – ssid\/cloneid.<\/p>\n
    ** The restriction on US date format may have eased in 7.5. I’m going to do some additional playing around with locales sometime soonish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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