So, an update .. for those playing along at home, I've now done "scanner
-i" on some of my old tapes. This creates entries in the mm database of
all the clients on the tape, in the form ~client-1. I then create a client
called ~client-1, run "scanner -i" *again*, and now I have an index of the
backup (since we don't save indexes with the jobs). And now I can browse
the saveset, using the NW GUI on Windows, choose the file I want to
restore, and go.
That's the theory. It doesn't work that way in practice .... at least not
to me, not yet.
Bringing up the GUI, and changing browse time to the time to what it is on
the tape, shows me all the drives *except* the one I want (drive E:, in my
case). WTF? A mminfo shows the saveset of drive E:, right there. An
nsrinfo command shows me that drive E: was backed up; I see all the
detail. mminfo tells me the saveset is browsable.
But it won't show in a browse. Why? Apparently, the ssid with drive E: is
so large, it spans multiple tapes (2 tapes one month, 3 tapes another
month). And even though it says the saveset is browsable, it doesn;'t show
in a browse.
I started a "ssid recover", and explcitly specified the one file in that
260G saveset that I wanted, and it looked like it was working. (it errored
out, saving the tape was corrupt, which may be a different issue).
Regardless, I scanned tapes for 2 months. I can not browse drive E: for
either month. I can browse for stuff on drive C:. The difference
(apparently) is that drive C: is contained all on a single tape each
month, and drive E; is not, and so drive E: doesn't show up to browse.
Which is VERY bad, IMO.
Q: doing an ssid recover, can I specify multiple files to restore, or am I
stuck doing one restore at a time? I get requests to restore 6 files at a
time; I would HATE to have to run an ssid recover 6 times, each specifying
a different file.
I had 3 Tech Support people on the phone last night; all of them were
scratching their heads. Certainly not filling me with confidence ...
At the moment, I am doing a "scanner -i" on 4 more tapes, and am going to
try the procedure using a different ~client-1. However, this other client
will *also* span multiple tapes (it's my main SAN backup, which is like
620G+ in size, on SDLT-600 tapes. It's on at least 2 tapes, more likely
more than that. We'll see if the same thing happens, and drive H: (the
large saveset in question, from which I need a file less than 5M in size)
will show in a browse.
Stay tuned ...
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Michael Leone
Network Administrator, ISM
Philadelphia Housing Authority
2500 Jackson St
Philadelphia, PA 19145
Tel: 215-684-4180
Cell: 215-252-0143
<mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>
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