> 
> That's my point - I want to stop the software from marking the tapes
> "recyc".  Restoring from a tape like this is much more difficult,

Can I ask why?  Once you're past the browse period, there shouldn't be
any real difference between 'recoverable' and 'recyclable'.  If you want
to keep the "browsable", then that's different.

Since 'nsrim' is the process that changes state, you could try moving it
aside so the system can't run it.  I think it should still come up, but
not do state transitions.  (never tried it).

> and I am
> trying to avoid having to restore a bootstrap, and then rebuilding 150+
> indexes.

You wouldn't have to rebuild them, you'd have to recover them.
recovering /nsr/index is usually sufficient.

> If I could just stop the Legato database in its current state, or
> "freeze" the database, that would be ideal.  I guess that I could change the
> date of the system, but that would mess up new backups. 

Try moving nsrim aside.

-- 
Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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