I don't know that there is a guarantee that these will provide the complete
list, but:

1) Using the Java GUI, set up the restore, and click "preview media
required".  I hate the Java GUI (who doesn't), and I seem to remember with
3.2 that it gave misleading results to this action.

2) Perform the restore, and have messages written to a log file.  It will
give a printout of media needed to be mounted (and then ultimately fail with
mount errors).  Sometimes there are more tapes listed than are actually
needed.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Ahrens [mailto:ahrensj AT psi DOT ca]
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 1:33 PM
To: Veritas BU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Determining tapes required for restore


Using NetBackup 3.2 on Solaris. Tapes are all stored off site. If a
restore is to be done of specific files, only the tapes required want to
come back. How can I determine what tapes are needed for which files for
performing a restore?

Thanks.

Jason

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