EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
03/28/2008 12:53:27 PM:

> davina wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > If any of the tapes in question have not yet been recycled, then 
mminfo 
> > will show you what is on them. mminfo can tell you what save sets 
still 
> > exist, even if they are recyclABLE. In this case, you can mark the 
save 
> > sets and notrecyclable, and scan them back in to the index.
> > 
> 
> Understood.   Unfortunately, the data the suits are interested in is
> so old that the media has probably been reused 10 or 12 times by 
> other clients and pools.

Even the suits should understand that very old data probably exists only 
in an end-of-month backup. I can get you Joe's mailbox as of Dec 31, 2004, 
but if you want it as of Dec 4, 2004 ...well, that ain't gonna happen ....

> 
> 
> davina wrote:
> > 
> > Once they have actually been overwritten by another backup, the 
> data and the references to it in the media DB are well and truly gone.
> > 
> 
> That's the way I thought it would it be.  thanks for the confirmation!
> 
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