Hi Michael 

No, it doesn't work that way.

This is how it works.

The CFI is an online db. It contains file information about your savesets on 
your media.

A saveset is browsable as long as the relevant index records are is still 
online (i.e. on the server under /nsr/index by default)

When the browse retention of a regular saveset (e.g. " /home") expires, then 
the associated index records are removed from the server and you cannot 
browse the /home files from that saveset anymore (unless you can recover 
those records)

Even if your saveset retention has not expired you can still do a saveset 
recovery. However if you want to be able to browse that saveset and perform a 
file recovery, then you will have to recover the client file index first 
(that is, if you have a recoverable saveset with the relevant client file 
index records -- i.e. from that savetime).  

Changing the retention of the index saveset will not put those records back on 
the server magically. You need to recover the index using nsrck -L7 (or scan 
the saveset -- note: scanner won't recover the index of some savesets -- like 
NDMP).

Note: The data saveset doesn't have to be browsable to recover the index. If 
it is already browsable why would you want to recover the index?  It was the 
nsrck -L7 of a recoverable index saveset what did the trick. The retention of 
the index saveset could have been any date as long as it was in the future.

The retentions of the index saveset and regular saveset are irrelevant as long 
as they have not expired. If they have, then nsrmm can be used to set the 
retention "back to the future" ;-).


Also note: It is possible to configure NW not to backup the index of some 
client and yet set an "infinite" browse policy for that client.


jee


On Tuesday 20 September 2011 13:39:07 Michael Leone wrote:
> That was the part I was forgetting. :-) So the "data saveset" that the
> index refers to should be browsable, up till it's browse date, provided
> that the index saveset has not expired?
>
> I'm basing that guess on the fact that the data saveset had a browse and
> retention date still 7 years in the future, yet was not browsable, until I
> extended the expiration date of the index saveset to be the same term, and
> did a "nsrck -L7" to re-populate the CFI.
>
> Am I right? Partially right? So lost in the weeds by the side of the road
> that I can't see where I am going? :-)

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