> 
> Hi, 
> 
> We're trying to restore data from tapes that have passed their retention 
> policy.

Unless the tape has actually be relabled, that shouldn't matter.

> We have a Networker 7.2 Server. We know that six tapes hold the 
> data we need. So I thought the best way to recover the data is by doing 
> a 'scanner -i' command and merge the data from the tapes into the indexes. 
> Running the command I can see the SSID's scanning in - but there are some 
> errors "read error unknown error 21 - cannot set block size: unknown error 
> 21". 

Any reason you can't use nsrck -L7 for the client and relevant date to
simply recover the old indexes rather than rebuilding them from the
saveset?

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