I've done this in *nix environments a few times, and also use it as a way of
moving data between datazones.
It's pretty straight forward providing you still have the Y:\aftd directory and
it's contents on disk.
Just create a new AFTD device pointing to the same directory, then run scanner
on it. Scanning a disk device is very quick and painless.
Don't try to mount or label the AFTD when you re-add it though.
If you are worried about accidentally destroying the contents of your aftd,
just copy the entire folder to another location, and use that as the aftd
target directory - the contents aren't linked to the physical path, all the
volume/pool/id details are in the volhdr file so it's quite portable.
You don't need the new AFTD device to have the same resource id/name as the old
one or anything, just think of it as a tape drive.
You can mount a given volume in any available tape drive, not just the drive
that labeled that tape.
The one caveat to this is that the AFTD structure is not really portable
between platforms, you can't mount a windows created AFTD on a *nix storage
node without some fiddling.
Regards,
Josh
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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Tim Kimball
Sent: Wednesday, 16 March 2011 3:45 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] HELP! Deleted AFTD volume and need to re-mount it
I suspect the procedure will be something like this:
-> re-add the mount itself
-> re-add the AFTD (this may require access to old .res data)
-> re-add the *old* volume (which is possibly the unsupported part,
though I don't see why you can't 'scanner' this once the AFTD was back
in)
Of course, if you've deleted the contents of that directory, all
(cheap/simple) bets are off.
Let us know how this turns out, since I've considered using a remote-mounted
(i.e. from DR site) AFTD for Index and Bootstrap copies.
This procedure would be required to recover the 'unknown' external AFTD at the
DR site.
--TSK
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Tim Kimball -- http://sungak.net
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ty Young [mailto:ty.young AT JDA DOT COM]
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:26 AM
Subject: HELP! Deleted AFTD volume and need to re-mount it
I created an AFTD device (Y:\aftd) with an associated volume
(SomeData.003) on a Windows storage node about three weeks ago, for a
one-
time use in backing up some data locally to the storage node.
Once given the all-clear by my mgmt, I deleted the AFTD and the volume from
NetWorker.
As you've undoubtedly predicted, I now am being told we need that data
recoverable after all! :-)
EMC support says this is not an officially-supported process, and will involve
some recreation of the AFTD, after which I will need to do some stuff to "suck
in" the data that is SomeData.003.
Has anyone else done this, and can you help me understand what's involved?
Thanks
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