The re-install of NMC got me in.

Here's the BIG problem ... I have a server, that has a completely 
different clientid from the server that created my 18 months worth of 
backup tapes. I am trying to rename this new server to be the old servers 
name. However, there is no chance that it will have the same client ID; I 
don't have the old client ID. The server is gone, reformatted, and I don't 
have the client ID written down.

Here's what I am having VAST amounts of trouble understanding ... why 
can't I rename this server back to the old name; run a mmrecov on the 
bootstrap tape made by the last server, and have it all Just Work? Tech 
Support is telling me it won't work, because the new server will have a 
different client ID than the old server. 

So how in hades does a D/R recovery work, then? If my building had burned 
down, you mean to tell me I'd have to know that 24 digit client ID, 
*before* I could install NetWorker on the replacement hardware and run a 
mmrecov? Seriously! That doesn't seem right to me; shouldn't the mmrecov 
just overwrite everything, and get back all my old clients and their 
client IDs? If I need the old client ID before I could do a restore on new 
hardware, wouldn't that apply to ALL clients? Am I supposed to have 
printed copies of all those client IDs, before I could restore anything on 
new hardware?

I *must* be misunderstanding something here .....

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