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Re: [Networker] Restoring files w/o NW installed/running

2004-07-21 13:08:48
Subject: Re: [Networker] Restoring files w/o NW installed/running
From: Stan Horwitz <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:08:37 -0400
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, David E. Nelson wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Anybody know how an administrator can recover data from a volume written by
>NetWorker w/o having to install/run NetWorker?  I'm trying to come up w/ a
>method using a volume written by NW 6.1.3 on Solaris 8.  BTW, no BSM's were
>used to write the tape originally.
>
>We had a vendor request data and they said that they could support anything.
>So we sent them an DLT8k written by Legato.  Turns out they don't have Legato.
>
>I thought this was possible using scanner/uasm but I've yet to find a method.
>
>Scanner fails to operate unless it's able to contact a legato server.
>
>Getting 'uasm' to read a tape is so far proving useless.  I've tried using 'dd'
>and 'tcopy' to work w/ uasm but so far unsuccessfully.

Why not just download the nw client from Legato's web site and install it?
You do not need to license the server in order to recover data. Licensing
is only required to do backups.

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