Think I figured out why it was asking for a 2nd tape .. had a client that 
I stopped saving in that bootstrap group, but had not yet deleted the 
definition. And I think the last time it was saved as part of that 
bootstrap info was 2 weeks ago ... which would have been the last time an 
index for that client was saved ...

So I stopped the "nsrck -L7"; deleted that client definition (and it's 
index directory), and re-started the "nsrck -L7". And it's now mack to 
recovering indexes for the rest of my clients.

So hopefully it will all Just Work ...


-- 
Michael Leone
Network Administrator, ISM
Philadelphia Housing Authority
2500 Jackson St
Philadelphia, PA 19145
Tel:  215-684-4180
Cell: 215-252-0143
<mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>


EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
11/06/2009 03:57:44 PM:

> NW 7.4.2, Win 2003.
> 
> Having a problem. I was out for 2 days, and something horrid happened to 

> the NW media db. What, I don't know. But support had my boss completely 
> blow it away, and told us to do the "mmrecov / nsrck -L7" route. We save 

> all indexes onto a single bootstrap tape, with the "savegrp -o" command. 

> So I have that tape loaded.
> 
> The mmrecov went OK. I started the nsrck -L7, and it was progressing. 
> (come odd messages about "Some file attributes were not recovered:", but 

> it was proceeding. Now, however, it seems stock, and the NMC log shows 
> that it is waiting for a whole other tape. A bootstrap tape made 2 weeks 

> before the currently loaded tape. 
> 
> Why would it want an older bootstrap tape, rather than the one made 4 
days 
> ago?
> The client it is trying to recover the index for is an old one that I 
> don't need anymore. We've physically retired that server, although I 
kept 
> the client definition, in case I needed to restore from it. Is there any 

> way to tell NW to skip over that client?
> 
> Still waiting for support to get back to me. I'd hate to have to back 
out 
> of all the "mmrecov" steps, just so I can get a backup tonight. AND 
we're 
> scheduled to upgraded our NetWorker server and 9 storage nodes to 7.4.5 
> tomorrow .. and I can't change that schedule now.
> 
> Any thoughts, anyone?
> 
> -- 
> Michael Leone
> Network Administrator, ISM
> Philadelphia Housing Authority
> 2500 Jackson St
> Philadelphia, PA 19145
> Tel:  215-684-4180
> Cell: 215-252-0143
> <mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>
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