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August 03, 2007

networker backup to disk

This am one of our backup groups failed to start. This particular backup group writes to disk rather than tape. Yesterday the drive was full and we manually recycled some savesets out of use. We thought things were good at this point. They were not ..

This device is defined as a disk file device by NetWorker. One of the characteristics of this type of media is that when it gets full you have to manually recycle savesets then set the volume to appendable. Here are some commands I used:
nsrmm to delete the savesetids
nsrstage -C -V _filedevice_