As someone who has been asked to restore data from as far back as 20
years...

My advice would be against that. Not that it can't be done, more the
issue of finding the proper data. If there is a potential requirement
that the data will be restored, consider a data migration service. The
cost to migrate data is small when planned for in advance when compared
to the cost of spelunking for some of this data.

Just a thought sir, from a humble serf...

Semper fidelis et paratus, /ALE


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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Dennis Peacock
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 3:38 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] NSR 7.4.5 Entire Catalog dump to text file...????

I need to dump an entire Networker catalog, to include a file listing of
what's backed up and retention to text file. The plan is to use scanner
at a later date for specific file recovery on another Legato environment
on an "as needed" basis.

In other words, the customer will say I want:
/u01/app/file_name.txt restored from old_server_long_retired

Put the file on new_server_in_production

I will need to search the dump text file for that file in the date range
specified by the customer, find out what tape and SSID it is in and use
scanner to recover said file.

All this is for a just in case for their long retention data and they
really need to retire the old server.

As always, advice and pointers welcomed and appreciated.

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