On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 06:37:03PM -0600, Browning, David wrote:
> Speaking from a person that has had to do this (Hurricane Katrina), I
> sure wish EMC/Legato would come up with a way to do a backup (and
> recover) of both indexes and media databases.  Certainly in this day and
> age, there should be some kind of way to do it. 

The backup and recover should be well covered (mmrecov).  But merging
foreign media informtion into an existing media database isn't.

> There's nothing like being stressed out beyond belief - think any
> disaster -, and then having to recover 150 indexes - and that's after
> you rebuilt your Networker server, and done the mmrecov.  
> 
> EMC/Legato needs to learn to build a better mouse trap.  (my opinion) 

Won't disagree, but what was the particular problem with recovering the
file indexes that you had?

-- 
Darren

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