I have some old tapes, from a different Networker server, that I must scan
and recover. Note that these tapes have never been in my media index. So I
know I need to do "scanner -m" to rebuild the media index first, and then
"scanner -i" *in the proper order* to rebuild the client index.
There are 6 tapes. I luckily happen to know what clientid I am looking
for, thanks to an old report, so I created a client entry for it, using
the same name. I've already scanned 3 of the tapes; doing an mminfo shows
me:
volume client name date time
Tape-1 Client D:\ 4/28/2007 1:44:21 AM
Tape-2 Client D:\ 4/28/2007 1:44:21 AM
Tape-3 Client D:\ 4/28/2007 1:44:21 AM
I know I need to do an mminfo with "fragflags", to see which tape has the
"h" flag (start of set), "t" (tail of set), and which has "m" (middle of
set), and that's my order to rebuild the file index - "scanner -i" in
h,m,t order.
Will NW just prompt me as to what tape to scan next, presuming I start
"scan -i" on the "h" tape? I think it should know which tape it needs
next, shouldn't it? Isn't it smart enough so that as long as I have added
all the tapes to media index with "scan -m", if I then do "scan -i -S
<ssid>" and feed it the first tape (as specified by fragflags), it will
tell me which tape to insert next?
If not, how do I determine the order of multiple "m" tapes (presuming
there are multiple "m" tapes; I'm still scanning #4 of 6)?
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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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