Hi Michael,
if you have index:<client> savesets on those tapes, scanner -m will get that
info on the media db too and you should be able to recover those indices using
the nsrck -L7 command. That should save you some scanner time.
But why not using scanner -i from the beginning? it may recover some indices
(if not, it will work as scanner -m)
jee
On Wednesday 28 Mar 2012 13:49:53 you wrote:
> 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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