If tapes are EXPIRED but not relabelled yet, you do not
need to scan tapes to recover from. Use recover -S SSID.
Recyclable/expired tapes just mean "may be overwritten if needed"
but does not mean you cannot recover ssid from even if expired.
Rebuiling/restoring CFI is only needed if you want to browse
old backup's file namespace.
If tapes are away from media database, your fastest option
is to scan tapes using scanner -m to populate mediadb
with stored SSID without rebuiling client file indexes.
You can have a try : Take a backup on a new tape.
Backup is broswsable. Change its state to expired.
Try to recover using "recover -S SSID".
Now, delete the tape from mediadb (do not relabel
the volume).
Load the tape in a drive and use "scanner -m"
to rebuild media db.
At this stage, SSID are known so you can use
"recover -S SSID" again for saveset recover.
You cannot browse the content of the backup but
you can entirely recover it.
If you know the path you want to recover, you can use
recover -S SSID [-d relocated path] <path to recover>
It will start reading the tape and just recovering the
<path to recover> directory.
HTH
Th
Kind regards - Bien cordialement - Vriendelijke groeten,
Thierry FAIDHERBE
Backup/Storage & System Management
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-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Len Philpot
Sent: mercredi 4 novembre 2009 15:53
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Speed up scanning on numerous tapes (additional
detail)
> Len Philpot
>
> Theoretical / procedural question -
>
> Has anyone ever had to scan in, i.e., using "scanner", MANY (i.e.,
> possibly hundreds) of old expired tapes? If so, is there any way to
speed
> up that process?
I hate to reply to my own question, but I just thought of this and maybe
this matters...
The theoretical tapes are still in the media indexes, but have long
expired all the savesets browse policies. I've never done a saveset
recovery, but I assume I still could at this point. I don't think that's
an option for other reasons, but it could technically be done, right?
Thanks.
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