This is something we have to start doing on a regular monthly or quarterly
basis. I believe the cloning would be overkill and would be quite time
consuming to do for nearly 100 clients. I think at this time our auditors
will be happy to if we can read the tape and provide a list of what's on it.
But something was mentioned about doing the same for a specific client,
which is why I thought I'd post in this forum to see if anyone has any idea
if it's possible.

Dave Herrmann


-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Horwitz [mailto:stan AT temple DOT edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 10:12 AM
To: Legato NetWorker discussion; Herrmann, Dave
Subject: Re: [Networker] Verifying a tape



On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Herrmann, Dave wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>I know I can run scanner <device> to scan a tape a get a listing of all
>the datasets on the tape. However I'd like to know if there is a way to
>run scanner to only get information for a specific client. If I try to
>run "scanner -c <client> <device>" I'm informed I can't use -c without
>-i or -x <args>. I don't want to use the -i, as that would rebuild the
>media and online indexes for the client, and I'm only wanting to verify
>it, not rebuild it. And it sounds like the -x is for UNIX commands,
>whereas my Networker server is 7.1.2 on Windows 2000.
>
>Any ideas how I can verify for a specific client or do I just have to
>verify the whole tape and be happy with it?

The best way to do this type of verification is to clone the saveset(s)
you're interested in. If the tape is faulty in some way, the clone will
fail.
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