To restore an expired tape, you have to "import" it.  This is a non-trivial
process so I'll refer you to the SAG for the procedure.  The import will
generate new catalog entries for it.

Personally, when somebody wants something that's expired, I say "Sorry".  

-M

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Taylor [mailto:jtaylor AT ithaca DOT edu]
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 11:44 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] rookie question about old'ish restores


Okay so thankfully I haven't had to do many restores, yet....  today I 
get to try to restore a large amount of data off media that has passed 
its retention date and is no longer in the catalog database.  I guess I 
need to "rebuild" the catalogs from that tape?  I know which tape the 
data is on but I need to be able to navigate to and restore a subset of 
directories from that tape etc.

So my question is what is the procedure to regenerate catalogs from 
media that has passed its retention period??

I would like to do this via either the master server GUI or client GUI 
if possible.  All Sol8 environment running NB DC 4.5.

Thanks in advance,

-Jeremy

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