> Despite all this the disaster recovery succeeds (nsrck, recover of server
> data).
>
> There are the points I'd like the opinion of the list:

> How come that mminfo does not find the bootstrap any more?

The others I'm not as certain of.  This one's pretty easy.  The
bootstrap information is read in as the media database.  When the
bootstrap was saved, the bootstrap wasn't complete, so it's not visible
in the media database.

Whenever I do a mmrecov, I always follow it up by scanning the tape from
the bootstrap forward.

> Apparently I would not be able to retry the recovery since there is no
> bootstrap anymore.

Of course you can.  The bootstrap is there, but the recovered media
database is from a point just before it was created.  You could retry
the recovery immediately.  Or, you can use 'scanner' to bring the
knowledge of the bootstrap into the database.

> I guess it was just plain luck the recovery succeeded.

No.

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