Re: [Networker] How to bypass a removed tape?

George,
        To ensure you haven't missed any data schedule a level 1 backup
on the affected clients. This should ensure that all data from the last
full (that Networker has in the database) has been backed up.

Regards
Bob 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: EMC NetWorker discussion 
>[mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Dave Mussulman
>Sent: 19 March 2007 17:16
>To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: [Networker] How to bypass a removed tape?
>
>On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:26:49PM -0400, George Sinclair wrote:
>> I was running some level full backups from several clients 
>in order to 
>> test backup speed to a new tape drive. The tape was labeled into a 
>> test pool and not the normal pools I use, but indexing was 
>not turned 
>> off for the pool.  I cancelled the backup after a while, but some of 
>> the fulls completed. I then relabeled the tape but not before some 
>> nightly incremental backups ran and completed on those same 
>clients. I 
>> then re-ran those incremental backups.
>> 
>> I assume that some of the later incrementals based their backups on 
>> what had changed since those same file systems completed 
>fulls in the 
>> earlier test, but now with the full volume gone, what do I do? Do I 
>> need to do anything?
>
>George, 
>
>My gutshot is that with the full removed, with dangling 
>dependencies, Networker would remove the orphaned incrementals 
>the next time it did its index cleanup.  That means any future 
>incrementals would base themselves off whatever the last good 
>previous state was.  But please don't take my word for it; 
>test it first.  I've found the unix nwadmin Index view to the 
>best, fastest way to see backup dependencies.  (You can kind 
>of generate it from mminfo, but not as quickly and it doesn't 
>do the indenting.)
>
>In any case, I would probably run some true leveled backup (a 
>full or numbered backup) to reset the future incrementals to a 
>good state.  If possible, scheduling a full to proper media is 
>probably the best idea.
>
>Dave
>
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