Robert,

Thanks for the response. The instances don't show anything unusual.

I was selecting everything on the full backup because we were re-building
a crashed machine. I had selected the browse time to just go back as far
as the last full. I already knew the tape required, but when I did show the
volumes required it listed the expected volume and the one from 90 days ago,
not any of the other fulls in between. Strange.

The restore did mount the old volume, but it did not take any information
from
it in the restore. The only real pain was that we had to recall the old
volume
from our offsite facility and it was not required or useful.

Bob

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From: Legato NetWorker discussion
[mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU]On Behalf Of Maiello, Robert
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 9:31 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Restore requiring 90 day old tape


Unless Networker is messing up (when have we seen that) it seems like
your restore is asking Networker to restore something that is not in
yesterday's full.    Are you selecting one file or directory that you know
for a fact is all in yesterday's full?    When it mounts the tape (full
backup tape?) from 90 days earlier does it actually takes data off if?
What is on that tape?   If this is an interactive recover do the old tapes
appear in the volumes list before the recover?

Robert Maiello
Pioneer Data Systems

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:28:19 -0400, GATES, ROBERT L
<robert.l.gates AT PFIZER DOT COM> wrote:

>Everyone,
>
>We have seen this in many instances now.
>
>Our retention periods are 90 days for both incrementals and full backups.
>After doing a full, let's say yesterday, if I try to restore a file the
>volumes required
>include the tape from yesterday and the tape from 90 days earlier.
>
>Why is that earlier tape required? Is there a way to get the restore to
only
>use the
>most recent backup tape? Setting the browse time to yesterday makes no
>difference.
>
>We are running 6.3.1 on an HP box.
>
>Bob
>
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