EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
03/20/2008 03:51:02 PM:

> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:59:29AM -0400, MIchael Leone wrote:
> > I have some old tapes (old = 2007-02-28, so well far beyond our 
> > browse/retention time). And now I need to restore some files off them. 
Our 
> > policy is not to save the index with every backup job (i.e., we run 
our 
> > own bootstrap job manually via schedule every day, doing a savegrp 
-O). 
> > Since this is the first time I've had to do a restore from old tapes, 
I'm 
> > a little unclear on the procedure.
> > 
> > NW 7.4.1, on Win2003
> > 
> > >From looking at the manual, I would need to do a:
> > 
> > scanner -m \\tape0 (since I have 4 tapes dated 2007-02-28, and 3 dated 

> > from a later month)
> 
> Scanner -m only restores the media database.  But the media DB entries
> are not destroyed at the end of the retention period.  They are only
> removed if you ask for that explicitly (nsrim -d) or if the volume is
> recycled.

The volume is recylced, according to the media database. So I guess I 
would need to do a "scanner -m" ?. I do see the saveset contents of the 
volume in the NW console GUI.

> > Once that finishes for the 1st (?) tape, I would need to do a 
> >      mminfo -a -v
> > to find out the sequence of tapes that this backup job consists of.
> 
> So this command should work now unless you've done something to remove
> the media entries in the past.

Well, I did try and just do the restore from the client (figuring that if 
the entries were still in the media database, all I would need to do is 
chnage the browse time, and NW would just tell what volumes I would need. 
However, it tells me it has no entries for that time period. Meaning no 
media database. (that's what led me to look and see that the volume is 
marked as "recycled" in the media db).

> > What tape do I do the "scanner -m" on, tho? I have 4 tapes, that 
pretty 
> > much say "EOM 2007-02-28". Do I just put one in at random, and NW will 

> > figure out the rest?
> > Then I do a 
> > 
> > scanner -i \\tape0
> 
> You can run -m and -i at the same time.  If you have the SSID of the
> data you need, you can limit the scanner to that SSID (or set of SSIDs).

I do happen to have the SSID (there's only 1 apparently); I see it listed 
in the NW GUI, in the "volumes" section.

SO do I still need to do a "scanner -m", or can I do a "scanner -c LOTUS 
-S 123456789", since that's the only saveset I want? And once I do that, I 
can go to the client, change the browse time to the time period of the 
saveset in question, and be able to do a directed restore?

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