If scanner was run with only the -m option it will just rebuild the media 
index, however if it was run with the -i option then it would have done both 
the media and CFI databases.

In this instance it is probably better to run nsrck -L7 ....

Regards,

Mark

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On 10 Oct 2012, at 07:21, Tony Albers <Tony.Albers AT PROACT DOT DK> wrote:

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you need to run a nsrck -L7 -t date 
> client to rebuild the client indexes even though you've used scanner?
> 
> It's worth a try at least.
> 
> /tony
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> On 10/09/2012 08:18 PM, Michael Leone wrote:
>> Years ago (like 4 years ago), my NW server had a meltdown, and I recovered
>> it wrongly. So I lost all my history. What I've had to do create new
>> clients, using the old client ID, and scan old backup tapes, as needed.
>> Stupid, but that's what I did. But here's what I don't understand.
>> 
>> When I do an mminfo on one of those clients, and try to use nsrinfo to
>> list details of what are on those scanned tapes, nsrinfo is failing, and I
>> can't see why.
>> 
>>> mminfo -avot -q
>> "client=OldClient,savetime>08/30/2007,savetime<09/15/2007" -r
>> client,volume,name,savetime(22),nsavetime,ssflags,ssbrowse(22),ssretent(22)
>> 
>>  client    volume         name                                date time
>> save time ssflags       browse            retention time
>> OldClient 01061307       H:\Users                         8/31/2007
>> 6:18:28 PM 1188598708 vF      9/30/2017 4:05:20 PM 10/30/2017 9:48:29 PM
>> OldClient 896846         H:\Users                         8/31/2007
>> 6:18:28 PM 1188598708 vF      9/30/2017 4:05:20 PM 10/30/2017 9:48:29 PM
>> OldClient 915359         H:\Users                         8/31/2007
>> 6:18:28 PM 1188598708 vF      9/30/2017 4:05:20 PM 10/30/2017 9:48:29 PM
>> 
>>> nsrinfo -t 1188598708 OldClient
>> scanning client `OldClient' for savetime 1188598708(8/31/2007 6:18:28 PM)
>> from the backup namespace
>> 0 objects found
>> 
>> This client isn't browsable, for some reason - I thought that running
>> "scanner -i" on those tape volumes would re-create the index, and make
>> them browsable. The savesets themselves are not expired. So, I figured
>> that I could capture the output from nsrinfo, I could look for the one
>> file I want. But even nsrinfo is faling ...
>> 
>> What could be causing both browsing and nsrinfo to fail, if the savesets
>> were scanned, and neither browsing nor retention have been exceeded, and
>> they're not expired?
>> 
>> I really don't want to have to re-scan these tapes ...
>>