Davina,

They never upgraded to W2k and stuck with NT4. Everything is the same as
prior to the crash (hardware, server) I don't have any bootstrap information
but two tapes in the drives from the backups prior to the crash. I scanned
the one tape and found the bootstrap but when I try to run MMRECOV it aborts
with the error message below. I contacted Legato and they had me try and
restore the information from that SSID to another folder but no good. I am
in the process of scanning the other tape to hopefully find another
bootstrap. Any ideas on what is causing that error message? Legato said that
the tape did not exist in the media database at the time the bootstrap was
run.

Uasm: Invalid Save Stream
>  
> Tries to mount tape and then rejects with RAP error and exits with return
> code 1 Also in the message Tape# not in the media index..cannot mount
volume.

-----Original Message-----
From: Davina Treiber [mailto:Treiber AT hotpop DOT com] 
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 4:49 AM
To: Legato NetWorker discussion; Ciolek, Ken
Subject: Re: [Networker] FW: MMRECOV

Ciolek, Ken wrote:
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>  
>   _____  
> 
> From: Ciolek, Ken 
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 1:21 AM
> To: 'Legato NetWorker discussion'
> Subject: MMRECOV
>  
>  
> I am in the process of rebuilding a Networker server and trying to run the
> MMRECOV and fails with the following error. Any ideas?
>  
> Uasm: Invalid Save Stream
>  
> Tries to mount tape and then rejects with RAP error and exits with return
> code 1

Did you decide to use the same hardware and software as before or did 
you upgrade to Windows 2000?

My gut feeling would be that this is a block size issue, and related in 
some way to the old chestnut about scatter/gather buffers. This could 
relate to a different SCSI driver in use.

As an example, I have seen NT4 systems using Compaq SCSI cards where the 
driver allowed 128KB block size by default. The system was rebuilt with 
a newer NT4 build that incorporated a newer version of the SCSI driver, 
but by default could only support 64KB block size. In this case Compaq 
support were no help and could not provide any way to change this. I 
never resolved this particular issue, and to my knowledge the customer 
just lived with the fact that recovering from old tapes was near impossible.

Give us some more detail...

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