Good luck with the test. I did not understand what you were looking to
do. 

Yes make sure the pool is configured. Run the scanner -I clientname.
Once the tape starts to read kill the scanner. This will populate the
clientid into the db. Now add the client into networker. Start the
scanner over with the -I flag. 

You need to scan the tapes in order. IF you can copy the clientid from
your backup server then you can create the client with the original
client id before starting your scan. 

Once done you should be able to do a browsable recovery.  


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-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Stan Horwitz
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:16 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Tips for doing a DR at SunGard

On Jan 16, 2008, at 10:02 AM, Browning, David wrote:

> First off, good luck with the test.
>
> Just curious, why wouldn't you bring your boostrap, and/or index 
> files?
> Scanning a tape takes quite a while, especially one that is close to 
> 1TB
> in size.   Also, the name of the server could come in to play, but I'm
> not sure since you are doing the scan.
>
> When I had to recover over 90 servers (Katrina), it was a lengthy (but
> straightforward) process of recovering the index of each server to 
> restore.  Once the index was restored, DR people could then start all 
> of their restores.
>
> In your case, a boostrap, some renaming the res directory, and then 
> recovering 1 index could be done in a very short time frame.  I think 
> it would be much quicker than scanning the whole tape.  Maybe others 
> have had different experiences with tape scanning.
>
> Let us know how it goes.

Thanks. I was unclear. I don't care about the ability to recover
individual files, although I will probably be asked just to recover two
or three specific savesets via the scanner utility. I will know which
saveset IDs to recover because I archive that information via an "mminfo
-v" daily.. The scanner man page says it accepts a SSID as an argument.
One thing I am not clear on is how scanner will know when a saveset
spans multiple tapes.

So, unless I am really off base, all I need to do at SunGard is create a
pool to match the one I use for doing the backups, and also a client
resource. I also assume that I will need to recover to a different path
and possibly the DR client might have a different host name than the
production client. But from what I can see, this can all be done without
recovering my production NSR server if I approach this from the
standpoint of migrating data rather than doing a DR situation.

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