"Browning, David" <DBrown AT lsuhsc DOT edu> wrote on 06/04/2010 03:49:04 PM:

> I'm not clear on exactly what you want to do, but after Hurricane
> Katrina, we had to do a lot of directed restores, from servers that
> didn't exist any more. 
> 
> We simply created entries in our hosts file, and then created the
> client.   As long as Networker can resolve the name, via DNS, or host
> lookup, it should work. 
> 
> 127.0.0.1          localhost
> 10.10.10.1        server1
> 10.10.10.2        server2
> 10.10.10.3        server3
> 10.10.10.4        server4
> 10.10.10.5        server5
> 10.10.10.6        server6
> 
> To this day, we still occasionally run across a restore that is needed,
> even though those servers no longer exist.   We simply restore their
> index, then browse and retrieve the files. 
> 
> Is this what you are looking to do? 

Yep. And which I have done before, but had mis-remembered or forgotten all 
the aspects.

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