Re: [Networker] about WISS error

For pre-6.0, the equivilent to "nsrck -L7" is "nsrck -X" if I
remember correctly.

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Riaan Louwrens wrote:

>Sorry, I cant comment, I am not well versed in pre 6.x releases. This is
>what you would do in version 6.x onwards. I have faint memory reading
>somewhere that this wasnt available in versions "pre 6". For some reason I
>dodnt correltat "SBU 5.5.1" with Legato version 5.5.1  (dont worry, the
>weekend is almost here),
>
>
>What I do know is the specific command is the following (on 6):
>nsrck -L7 clientname
>
>Perhaps somebody else in the list can comment if this is different with
>pre-6 releases ? You would probably have to do a scanner (as you mentioned),
>
>Regards,
>Riaan
>
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gerard Henry [mailto:ghenry AT cmi.univ-mrs DOT fr]
>Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:32 AM
>To: Riaan Louwrens
>Cc: 'Legato NetWorker discussion'
>Subject: Re: [Networker] about WISS error
>
>
>thanks for your response
>but i see no option "-L7" in my nsrck, nor in man nsrck, are you sure it
>exists in release 5.5.1?
>mary2-root% nsrck -c scr -L7
>nsrck: file index for client scr already exists.
>nsrck: Host -L7 is not a valid client.
>
>mary2-root% nsrck -L6
>usage: nsrck [ -qM ] [ -T tempdir ] [ -X [ -x percent ] | -C | -F | -m | -c
>] [ clientname ... ]
>
>On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 11:32:51AM +0200, Riaan Louwrens wrote:
>> Gerard,
>>
>> Briefly, You have to look at recovering your indexes for the specific
>client
>> (assuming it is a valid client and was backed up recently) from tape.
>>
>> The easiest way to do this is to run a:
>>
>> nsrck -c clientname -L7
>>
>> This should re-create your client index - with records - from your last
>> index backup. You should then be able to do your normal recoveries for the
>> specific client.
>>
>> Note this is all assuming you have index backups and this is a valid
>client
>> and your backup server itself is sound (no corruption etc).
>>
>> Running a nsrck -L6 will do a high level cross-check of all your indexes
>on
>> yoru backup server.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Regards,
>> Riaan
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gerard Henry [mailto:ghenry AT CMI.UNIV-MRS DOT FR]
>> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:12 AM
>> To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>> Subject: [Networker] about WISS error
>>
>>
>> hello,
>> i had this error on my networker server (SBU 5.5.1)
>> * scr:/var/yp/etc save: WISS error, bad database header
>> ...
>> 06/23/04 05:33:09 nsrindexd: Warning: /nsr/index/scr/db missing file sr_x1
>> ...
>>
>> i tried to recover /nsr/index/scr/db, but it seems it was'nt on my tape!
>> after googling and reading this list, i do:
>> mary2-root% nsrck -m  scr
>> mary2-root% nsrck -X scr
>> nsrck: checking index for scr
>> nsrck: index for scr is missing.
>> nsrck: The client index is missing, recover the index or run nsrck -c to
>> create the index.
>> nsrck: completed checking 1 client(s)
>> mary2-root% nsrck -c scr
>> nsrck: index for scr is created.
>> mary2-root% nsrck -X scr
>> nsrck: checking index for scr
>> nsrck: cross-checking index for scr
>> nsrck: completed checking 1 client(s)
>>
>> so now, i hope this is ok, but:
>>
>> - if i try to recover older files, with nwrecover, for example at 06/21/04
>> (before error), networker says:
>> "Nothing in index at this time"
>>
>> What can i do to recover my indexes? i have to scan tapes from the last
>full
>> backup? and after, how can i be sure that unecessary tapes are recycables?
>>
>> Thanks for hour help,
>>
>> Gerard HENRY
>> LATP UMR 6632
>> http://www.latp.univ-mrs.fr/informatique
>>
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