Some may have seen my discussions about reading a foreign bootstrap tape. 
And I've decided that the best course is to recreate my old NW server, and 
do a D/R recovery of it, and do the recover from that machine, rather than 
scanning in 6-7 old tapes, and rebuilding indexes that way. But I notice 
that the NW 7.5 Disaster Recovery Guide states to install the same version 
of NW on the replacement hardware, that was on the original hardware. 
Since I want to recover a tape from Dec 2007, that should be (I think) NW 
7.4. I based that on the creation dates of the downloaded versions of NW I 
have. However, at this point, I really don't recall if these tapes were 
made on 7.3.2-Jumbo-Update1 or 7.4 (I don't recall exactly when we 
upgraded to 7.4).

So my question ... if I install 7.4 (that's my best guess as to what 
version we were running at time), it shouldn't be too much of an issue to 
read a tape that may have been created by 7.3.2, I think. Am I correct in 
my recollections that the database formats didn't change between 7.3.x and 
7.4? I believe they changed between 7.4.x and 7.5.x. , 

In short, I want to install 7.4.0, and do my disaster recovery of the NW 
server (and then regular file recovery), on my tapes made in Nov-Dec, 
2007. Does that sound like it should work? I can remember upgrading from 
7.3 to 7.4, but not when. Even if the bootstrap tap[es were made with 
7.3.2, this should work. Yes?

-- 
Michael Leone
Network Administrator, ISM
Philadelphia Housing Authority
2500 Jackson St
Philadelphia, PA 19145
Tel:  215-684-4180
Cell: 215-252-0143
<mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>

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