> Thierry FAIDHERBE 
> 
> 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.

Unfortunately, that's almost certainly to be the case - The files index 
will need to be browsesable.

I also wasn't totally accurate in my followup comment (in a hurry, aren't 
we always? :-)  Both browse and retention policies have long expired on 
all of these tapes, but since the tapes have not been recycled, the 
savesets themselves are still visible via mminfo. So, I could do a saveset 
recovery, but not browse any individual files.

If anyone knows of any shortcuts to a browseable file index, I'm all 
ears...  :-\

Thanks.

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