EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
08/08/2008 03:59:07 PM:

> In regard to: Re: [Networker] Problems renaming NW 7.4.2 server in 
> Windows,...:
> 
> > You should be able to use scanner on the media and get the information
> > on the old backups, however.
> 
> That's exactly correct.  There are other options for getting old data
> back that don't involve recovering an old media database and config
> from a system that was experiencing a lot of problems.
> 
> > Not that is practical, depending on your enviornment, but you can do
> > restores from those old backups if need be.
> 
> Yup.
> 
> Depending on your environment, one could even do the mmrecov to a
> temporary system (I would probably have the system off the network, to
> avoid any possible conflicts or licensing issues with your current
> system).  If you can somehow get a tape drive connected to the temporary
> system, you can use that system to do the recovery.

I wish I had a temporary system to do that! As I say, I think if I had the 
old client IDs off the old mmrecov tape, I could delete the clients from 
the new server; recreate them using the old client IDs, and so any 
s"scanner -i" would just find the client that the tape is from, and link 
to it.

Right now, it's not - it says it is creating "~client1", but I don't see 
that client as a restore source at all.

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