> I have been asked to indentify all needed tapes and their respective
> saveset dates for a particular client, as far back as possible, up to
> say sept. of last year (2003). I am pretty sure some of you mminfo
> wizards might be able to help me out on this one. It's not all
> browsable or online, but entirely all savesets that *could* be
> restored.
Joseph Ortiz's suggestion for an mminfo command should do what you need.
You're basically only querying for volumes that contain savesets relating
to a particular client, so the smallest amount of info would be from a
report like
mminfo -q 'client=your.client.name' -r volume
There may be lots of additional stuff you want to have in your report,
though, such as barcode, savetime, level, ssid, and name (what
volume/filesystem on the client).
> Also, we are looking into some sort of DR company that we could throw
> these 200 or whatever tapes at, and tell them to restore all the mail
> files and concatenate all the mail files into a huge mail file per
> person. To Clarify, restore my full backup from each weekend, and
> throwany new mail into my master mail file. Has anyone done
> something like
> this before?
I've had to do this a couple of times over the years, so I wrote a perl
script to batch recover every instance of a file (or directory path)
available for a range of dates. It requires that the index entries be
browseable, though, so you would have to scan your old tapes or (much
faster) use nsrck -L7 to load the indexes for your client from a few date
ranges, if those indexes are still available on tape.
Tim
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