> 
> Let's suppose you did need to delete the last couple of incrementals. If 
> for some reason you did need to scan the tape(s) to retrieve one or more 
> of the good incr save sets that you deleted in order to re-run a 
> previous incremental, how do you specify them if you can't query the 
> database on them anymore? Just step through the whole tape?

Keep a bit of output of the old database.  Before you delete them, note
the position on the tape (volume, mediafile) and the save set identifier
(ssid).  Then you can feed those to scanner to speed things up.

Otherwise, yeah, just go through the whole tape.

-- 
Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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