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Re: [Networker] Make Expired Volumes Browseable

2009-08-27 09:06:27
Subject: Re: [Networker] Make Expired Volumes Browseable
From: Jens Rohde <svabonius AT ME DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:00:00 +0200
Hi

That's a easy one:

"nsrck -L7" recovers your indexes from media, using your media database to find the backup of you index. But if these backups are expired, you can't recover them using nsrck. Then you can find the volume with the actual backup on (not the index backup) and use scanner to recreate the index for whatever backups networker will encounter on the tape.

So if you wan't to recreate indexes for save sets past there retention time you'll use scanner, otherwise nsrck -L7.

/Jens


On 27/08/2009, at 14.01, Gold, Evan wrote:

Can someone explain to me the difference between "scanner -i" vs "nsrck -L7" ?


Evan Gold
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----- Original Message -----
From: Davina Treiber <Davina.Treiber AT PeeVRo.co DOT uk>
To: EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>; Gold, Evan
Sent: Thu Aug 27 06:37:10 2009
Subject: Re: [Networker] Make Expired Volumes Browseable

Gold, Evan wrote:
But indexes on seperate tapes wastes a lot of tapes. Indexes are tiny so I ended up sending mostly empty tapes offsite.


It only wastes tape if you send them away before they are full. There is
a debate to be had here about whether it is better to send them away
immediately or wait until they are full, and that depends on many
factors, such as the size of your environment and type of media used.
There is nothing to stop you retrieving some tapes and staging them to
use media more effectively, if you think that is worth the bother, but
tapes are cheap compared to the cost of someone's time to mess about
with this stuff, and compared to the value of the data on them.
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