Networker

[Networker] Tracking recycled media....

2008-03-28 12:57:33
Subject: [Networker] Tracking recycled media....
From: brerrabbit <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:53:27 -0400
davina wrote:
> 
> 
> If any of the tapes in question have not yet been recycled, then mminfo 
> will show you what is on them. mminfo can tell you what save sets still 
> exist, even if they are recyclABLE. In this case, you can mark the save 
> sets and notrecyclable, and scan them back in to the index.
> 

Understood.   Unfortunately, the data the suits are interested in is so old 
that the media has probably been reused 10 or 12 times by other clients and 
pools.


davina wrote:
> 
> Once they have actually been overwritten by another backup, the data and the 
> references to it in the media DB are well and truly gone.
> 

That's the way I thought it would it be.  thanks for the confirmation!

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