Do you have access to the documentation? I suggestyou use this as your first 
point of reference - there are worked examples of how to do recoveries in 
various situations. powerlink.emc.com has definitive copies of manuals 
available for download.

Yes nsrck -L 7 will work but expects the index space to be that of the server 
you are recovering - hence the extra entry in the hosts file.

What is the exact error message? - should give both the servername and client 
index it is attempting to recover.

To check the media database is intact you can query it for index entries, these 
are stored under the server client index.
 
Does mminfo -c <server> -q "name=index:<client>,level=full" give you a list of 
savesets?

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