Gene Heskett on Thu 23/01 20:13 -0500:
> > Several years ago I moved two clients from Networker (Sun's
> > version). They have never looked back.  One client in particular was
> > pissed at Legato's claim (at the time) that because the backup host
> > had died, there was no way to recover any of the existing backups.
> 
> 'scuse me Jon.  If I was that client, paying thru the nose and got
> that reply, I think my next call would have been to the lawyers.
> They have a certain amount of responsibilty to facilitate recovery
> from *any* failure, after all, thats what you are paying them for.
> Thats in-excusable for a commercial product to have that kind of an
> attitude.  But then I think, from my conversations with knox, that
> knox would probably be a somewhat nicer situation.  Can anyone testify
> any differently?  OTOH, if you can get one of their tapes into a drive
> that will read that tape, all the stuff to do a from scratch recovery
> is actually on the tape itself as a lengthy header that you can dd
> back, uncompress and run to get the rest of it.  On every tape, just
> grab one and go.

well, id did qualify it with "at the time."

I remember a utility called "scanner" that came with Networker that
could be used to reconstruct indexes from tape, in our version.  Who
know what it was like many years ago.