Re: [Networker] quick file recover help please

In regard to: [Networker] quick file recover help please, Diane Rolland...:

I have a single file that I need to recover that is not on any browsable
index.

I have the file name, the path that I want to restore to and the ssid.  I
also know the tape that the file should be located on.


There are (possibly) two easy ways to do this:

- The file isn't browseable anymore, but do you have a tape that contains
  a backup of the index data for that client that would have contained the
  the file information?

  For example, say your client name is foo.bar.com.  You want to recover
  a file from July 4th 2005, but the file isn't browseable.  You do,
  however, know that one of your tapes contains an "index:foo.bar.com"
  saveset from August 3rd 2005, and your browse policy is such that that
  index would have contained the file information.

  In that case, you can quickly recover the index for foo.bar.com using
  `-L7' option to nsrck:

                nsrck -L7 -t 08/04/05 foo.bar.com


  Once you have that, you can browse from the client, use changetime to
  browse back to 07/04, and add and recover the file.

- Since you know the exact path, you can use a saveset recover and specify
  which path it is you want to recover.  This will be slower than
  recovering the index of the client and browsing, but it will work even
  if you don't have a suitable index for the client.

  You will need to run the `networker' GUI on the client in question, as
  root.  From the GUI, choose "Save Set->Recover".  From the window that
  comes up, choose the client in question.  Next, select what filesystem
  it is that would contain the file.

  Next, choose the saveset in question that has the file you want to
  recover.  For example, if you know it's in an incremental saveset that
  was done on 07/04/05, you would choose that one from the list.

  Once you have that selected, you can click "Details" to verify that
  the one you selected matches the ssid and tape volume you're expecting.

  Next, click "Recover".  Select the one saveset that should show up
  in the "Savesets" window, so that it's highlighted (this step *may*
  not be necessary anymore, though it does no harm).

  Then, in the "Paths to Recover" box, type in the exact path to the
  file you want to recover.  Be sure you hit "Enter", so that the path
  appears in the area below the text entry box.

  You can use the "Options" button to change what happens on file
  conflicts or to relocate the recovered file(s) to a different location,
  but if you want it to be recovered to the spot it was backed up from
  and there isn't already something there by the same name, you don't need
  to do anything with the "Options" button.

  Next, click "Recover", and wait.  NetWorker will read the saveset in
  question, on the tape in question, record by record, looking for the
  file data for the file in question.  When it finds it, it will recover
  it and continue reading the saveset.

Hope this helps,

Tim
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