I've had the opportunity over the past 8 years to both 'start from scratch' and 
'fix an existing system' (my own, unfortunately), and starting over has by far 
been the easier route.  The only good thing about the do-over was that I was 
able to blast everything and start from a totally clean slate since the system 
was not in production yet.

Additional comments:


MIchael Leone wrote:
> 
> Hmmm ... I don't know if I've become a good example, or a horrible warning....
> 


Both, actually.  You're reminding me of the two years I lost wrestling with an 
STK BladeStore RAID (which I was hoping to forget, thank you :P ).  I've still 
got to do my 7.4.x server upgrade too, but I've got a hangup that's unrelated 
to Networker (new thread shortly, its partially relevant...).



> 
> >> mminfo -a -r 'client,clientid' | sort -u > clients-clientids
> Oh, yes. :-)
> 


I've also had the fortunate (maybe) providence of needing to do this regularly 
in order to rename clients; I've done about a dozen of those now, including a 
NW Server (which sucked, due to special circumstances - I may tell this story 
at the NYC meet if someone reminds me, as that instance is now retired).  I'm 
thinking of doing this query on one of my monitor hosts, as a crontab every 
weekend.

--TSK

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