Well, the bad news is, EMC is right. There's no way (that I know of anyway)
to merge indexes from two servers.

The best I can suggest for your DR situation is to mmrecov the smaller of
the two servers first, then restore those clients. When they're done, copy
the whole /nsr directory in case you missed anything or have to repeat,
recover the other server and start the main group of recoveries. It isn't
pretty but it'll be quicker than scanner-ing 15 tapes.

Conrad Macina
Pfizer, Inc.



On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:43:51 -0500, JackTFECow
<networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM> wrote:

>I had a ticket generated at EMC for this, and unfortunately they have told
me there is no way to do what I am attempting to do.  Being that I have been
told this in the past, and found that they were wrong by checking the boards
here, I thought I would post the information and what I am attempting to do.
 Maybe someone here can actually answer this.
>
>The environment:
>We have 2 backup servers.  One handles production, and one handles
QA/FT/DV.  Both systems are windows and both are running 7.4.4.  The
production system has LTO-4 drives (we use 3 and 4 tapes for backups and
clones).  The non production system is LTO-2, and has more drives.
>
>The problem:
>The DBAs here run scripts to do transaction logs and random
backups/recoveries at all hours of the day/night.  This has caused many
problems on the production system, as the LTO-4 drives have been fickle at
best lately.  Every time I take the system for an outage the DBAs complain.
 The beginning of the week has been a nightmare because we try to get all
the cloning done as fast as possible so it can go offsite by Wednesday. 
Because the production system has fewer drives, and far more to do from
Sunday through Wednseday morning, I am looking to move the SQL clients to
the non production backup server.
>
>My solution:
>Moving the SQL clients to the non production backup server allows more
flexibility with the backups and cloning process.  Moving the clients is
easy enough to do.  Cloning isn't a problem either.
>
>What I need help with:
>At the DR site we only bring up one backup server, the production one.  We
only have one library at the DR site, and depending on the test year, only
3-4 days to bring the whole production site up.  There is no time to scan
all the SQL tapes in from the non production backup server to the production
one.  We need to bring the backup server up and get the backbone systems up
as fast as possible and then start running restores immediately.  What I
need is a way to get the indexes of just the SQL clients merged into the
production system without having to scan the approximately 15 tapes the data
will be on.
>
>What I have tried so far:
>I have tried running a bootstrap from the non production system and
scanning just the indexes for the clients I need onto the production server
(I have the SQL clients on both backup servers using the same client ID) but
the saveset just shows up as Recoverable (cr flag).  None of the savesets
show up, so this is no working.  Like I stated in the beginning, EMC support
claims that there is no way to achieve what I need.
>
>Any ideas?  I am open to trying most anything at this point.  I can get the
approvals to move the clients, I just need to prove that we can move a
client and that we will not spend the first 20 hours at the DR site scanning
tapes...
>
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