On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:12:02PM -0500, George Sinclair wrote:
> Can you simply use 'mmrecov' to recover the media database from tape on 
> a different endian box (Linux), assuming you backed it up using 
> 'savegroup -o groupname -l full' on Solaris? 

Yes.


> My understanding is that 
> the media database gets backed up every time the server gets backed up, 
> so if the server is a member of  'groupname' then you'd have a backup of 
> the media database on tape, too, so you could then use 'mmrecov' on the 
> other endian machine? Would this do the same thing?

mmrecov uses the bootstrap backup, which can be backed up manually (with
the indexes) with the savegrp -O flag.  In my experience, yes, it also
backs up each time server backs up.

Dave

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