On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:27:30 -0700, Deb <deb AT TICKLEME.LLNL DOT GOV> wrote:

>Bafflement today.  I want to recover some files from about 10 days ago.
>Using recover, I add the files,
>
>Recovering 85 files within /export/home/1/deb/into
>/export/home/1/deb/recover
>Volumes needed (all on-line):
>        Full.015 at DLT2
>        Incr.022 at DLT2
>Requesting 85 file(s), this may take a while...
>Total estimated disk space needed for recover is 312 KB.
>
>But, the first tape asked for is Full.018 (which, of course, isn't online),
>and this wasn't even listed by the "vol" query.
>
>Why does NW think it needs Full.018?  To get the bootstrap info?
nsrindex?
>Why wouldn't recover list that when queried for which volumes it needs
>to do the work?

It's a bug, and quite an annoying one. You don't state your version, but
the bug you describe certainly exists at 6.0.2. Upgrade to fix it, you'll
have to check with Legato Support to find out what version fixes it.

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