In regard to: [Networker] Problem restoring a directory, Stan Horwitz said...:

>The files come from one full backup done a few days ago, then
>just one incremental. When I arrived at work today, for each file that's
>in the recover list, I saw a message along the lines of

Stan-

I leave the Windows restores to our Windows and Netware guys, but if this
were a UNIX box and I needed to recover a "large" filesystem and I knew it
would only take two savesets to do it, I would use a saveset recover, not
browsing via the recover command.

I don't even know if that's an option for Windows though.  Is that
available under windows?  You've been on the NetWorker list as long as
I have, so I know you know NetWorker as well as I do (probably better!).
I'm guessing you didn't mention saveset recovery because it's not an
option, but I had to ask.

I agree that it would be better if recover just worked (and didn't take
days to figure out which files it needed off which tapes, but it's hard to
know how much that could be improved), but saveset recovery generally is
much faster than browsing and recovery.

The downside of saveset recovery is that you don't necessarily get an
exact picture of how the filesystem was when it was last backed up.  Any
files that were deleted since either of the backups took place will come
back.

Tim
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