On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:30:28AM -0800, Darren Dunham wrote:
> > 
> > It looks like not all required volumes to be online.
> > At recover prompt, use "volume" cmd to verify all
> > requested vols are loaded in your jbox.
> 
> I wish that command was more accurate.  We just went through a DR
> exercise.  I only had a subset of the tapes at the test location
> (pre-selected based on backups).
> 
> I went through several rounds of 'volumes' saying everything was online,
> typing 'recover', and seeing additional volumes suddenly become pending.
> It's difficult to tell what file or files is causing the request, and I
> don't know any easy way to keep networker from from looking for older
> files.
> 
> I could have done a saveset recovery, but we only needed a small number
> of files from a rather large saveset.  Recovering the whole thing would
> have been very annoying.

What version of Networker are you running?  When we were running 6.0.2,
it was pretty common to get an incomplete volume list for the restore.
(I think it had something to do with not listing secondary volumes on
savesets that spanned more than one volume.)  I usually found it an
effective side exercise to figure out which savesets were going to be
needed for the restore (via the nwadmin Indexes display,) and use mminfo
to see all of the volumes needed (and load them in the jukebox.)

After we upgraded to 7.1.2, the volumes list seemed to be more accurate.
I can't think of the last time I didn't get a complete list on the
restore running 7.1.2.  (However, upgrading to LTO3 and using a lot less
media in a large library might be part of it too.)

Dave

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