[Networker] How to work around a bad tape?

Is it possible to recover a portion of a save set by pointing it at aspecific tape or telling it not to recover anything from a specificrequired volume?

For example, if you need to recover a full save set that spans say 5tapes, and tape 4 of 5 is a problem tape, you could obviously start therecover, and then when it gets to tape 4 you could then cancel or simplynot even have that tape loaded to begin with in which case NetWorkerwill ask for it, and then you could cancel the recover. Obviously, youwouldn't end up with everything, but you'd at least have the first 3tapes, and that *might* be better than nothing. I don't see any way todo this in the GUI, but is there a command line work around wherein youcould do a save set recover against each good tape by somehow specifyingthe file or starting record number? I know save set recover will notremove data like a browsable recover will so you might end up with extrafiles, but that doesn't seem likely in a full restore, only if one ormore incrementals were also specified, and even still that might bebetter than nothing in certain circumstances.

Just seems like with save set recover that NetWorker outa be able towork around one or more required tapes and just pull off whatever isthere, leaving it up to you to deal with the aftermath. If NetWorkerknows where the save set starts on the tape then why should it matterwhether or not it has one or more of the required tapes, except for theone actual file that spans? Maybe not that simple?


Just curious.

George

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