I was affraid of this and hoping I was wrong but you confirmed it.  We
finally got it so the server (who changed names since the backup) could
recover the file and they're back now.

Thanks,
  Robert


Thus spake Davina Treiber (treiber AT HOTPOP DOT COM):

> On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:57:28 +0200, EXT / CADENCE SIXA PRIGENT Yves (DSIT-
> XA) <ext.cadencesixa.prigent AT SNCF DOT FR> wrote:
>
> >With the version of Networker we use (6.1.3) recovering Windows files to a
> >Unix box produce always zero length files.
> >Maybe it is not true in more recents releases (7.x)
>
> Hang on... it took until this posting for me to realise what you are trying
> to do. You are trying to recover a file to a Unix machine that was backed
> up by a Windows client? Now wonder it's not working, this is flat out not
> supported. I assumed you were running the CLI recover command on a Windows
> machine, but on closer inspection you are specifying a Unix directory for
> the relocation.
>
> You must recover Windows 2000 files to a Windows 2000 machine. There is no
> cross-platform recovery in NetWorker. Even different versions of Windows or
> different flavours of Unix often will now work. Legato will categorically
> not support what you are trying to do and this is well documented.
>
> Your solution is simple - recover the file to the same platform as it was
> backed up to. You can still control this from your Unix machine if you
> like, but the destination client must be Windows.
> >
> >
> >> -----Message d'origine-----
> >> De:   Robert L. Harris [SMTP:Robert.L.Harris AT RDLG DOT NET]
> >> Date: mardi 29 avril 2003 15:58
> >> ?:  NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> >> Objet:        Re: [Networker] Recovered file is 0 bytes?
> >>
> >> It's a payroll system.  The file shouldn't have been in use.  In
> >> addition I told it to recover the entire saveset from the tape in
> >> question.  It made a complete listing of the C: to /tmp/foo but every
> >> file was 0 bytes.
> >>
> >> I'm trying:
> >>   scanner -S 2937736961 /dev/nst1 | /usr/lib/nsr/uasm -rv
> >>
> >>
> >> Which isn't doing anything yet.  The file was backed up about a month
> >> ago and wasn't corrupt at the time (used since then) but now I can't
> >> recover it.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions or other thoughts on how to pull this off tape?
> >>
> >> Thus spake Stan Horwitz (stan AT temple DOT edu):
> >>
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> >> >
> >> > >  I just recovered a file using "recover -c <client> -s <server>" with
> >> the
> >> > >CLI tool.  When I was looking at the file lising in the client it
> >> showed
> >> > >the file being 5K.  When I actually executed the recover it was 0
> >> bytes.
> >> > >I just got paranoid and did a :
> >> > >
> >> > >recover -s <server> -S <$SSID> -d /tmp/foo
> >> > >
> >> > >It made 0 length files for everything on the C: but that's it.  Anyone
> >> > >ever see this or have any ideas how to get this data off the tape,
> it's
> >> > >rather critical?
> >> >
> >> > Probably, the file was either in use (i.e., locked by Winblows)  or
> >> > corrupt at the time it was backed up. NetWorker probably had no problem
> >> > reading the size of the file (because a file lock does not make that
> >> info
> >> > unavailable), but it could not get the contents of the file due to the
> >> > lock.
> >> >
> >> > In all likelihood, the users of that system either need to shut down
> all
> >> > their apps when they're finished with them each day, or you need to
> >> > install an open file manager, such as Legato's offering.
> >> >
> >> > You might be able to get the file from another day's backup.
> >>
> >> :wq!
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> >> -
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