Fazil.Saiyed AT anixter DOT com wrote on 08/08/2008 03:40:45 PM:

> 
> Hello, 
> Michael, there are steps you can take to avoid such a scenario. 
> If your building burns down, hopefully, you have been sending tapes 
> offsite and the bootstraps are being generated daily ( You can even 
> email\ftp them). Building new server with new client id , but having
> same name\ip and then doing mmrecov ( All in the Legato DR Guide) is
> an established procedure, you should not have any issues reading 
> your original tapes. 

That is what we are doing.

> As far as old tapes go, if you were to do scanner -i even with the 
> new server, it should read the data back in and restore them, you 

No. It does not. Not easily, anyway. Not in my situation, anyway.

> will need to re-create the client\pool etc that originally existed (

The clients all exist, with the same names they always had. They just had 
different client IDs. So the "scanner -i" on the tapes made form 6 months 
all rename the client (it says), but the renamed clients appear nowhere - 
they're not in the server's list of client, they're not in the source list 
of a nwrecover, etc. So how do I get to the silly things?

> There are workarounds and you can use info from mminfo for the old 
> tapes to guide you). 
> As long as you follow the general guidelines in the DR guide you 
> should be fine. 
> HTH 
> 

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