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Chapter 4  Common StorNext Tasks

Setting up Alternate Retrieval Locations

StorNext User’s Guide

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Select from the Select Request ID list the pending requests you want 

to cancel. If desired, you can click Select All to select all requests. 

Click Apply to continue. 

When the Status screen informs you that the selected requests have 

been successfully cancelled, click OK. The requests you selected are 

now removed from the list on the Cancel Request screen.

Setting up Alternate Retrieval Locations

In situations where file retrieval fails because the normal file copies 

cannot be retrieved from the machine on which StorNext Storage 

Manager resides, this feature enables you to retrieve a copy of the 

truncated file from a different machine.
For example, if StorNext creates two copies of each file, when retrieving a 

truncated file StorNext tries to retrieve Copy One and then Copy Two. If 

neither of these copies can be retrieved and this feature is not enabled, the 

retrieval fails. However, if this feature is enabled for the file system, after 

retrieving Copy Two fails Storage Manger tries to retrieve the file from 

the alternate machine you specified during feature setup.
This feature applies only to managed file systems that have at least one 

configured policy class. 
For this feature to work correctly, it is your responsibility to make sure all 

files you might want to retrieve are copied to the alternate machine. 

Otherwise retrieval will fail when StorNext attempts to retrieve the file 

from the alternate location and cannot find the file.

If a file on the original machine is renamed after it was 

stored by StorNext, an alternate retrieve will fail for that 

file.

If a file on the original machine is not the latest version (for 

example, if the fsrestore command was used to restore a 

previous version,) whichever file has the correct pathname 

will be retrieved from the alternate machine.