Len Philpot wrote:
>> Thierry FAIDHERBE 
>>
>> If tapes are EXPIRED but not relabelled yet, you do not
>> need to scan tapes to recover from. Use recover -S SSID.
>> Recyclable/expired tapes just mean "may be overwritten if needed"
>> but does not mean you cannot recover ssid from even if expired. 
>> Rebuiling/restoring CFI is only needed if you want to browse
>> old backup's file namespace.
> 
> Unfortunately, that's almost certainly to be the case - The files index 
> will need to be browsesable.
> 
> I also wasn't totally accurate in my followup comment (in a hurry, aren't 
> we always? :-)  Both browse and retention policies have long expired on 
> all of these tapes, but since the tapes have not been recycled, the 
> savesets themselves are still visible via mminfo. So, I could do a saveset 
> recovery, but not browse any individual files.
> 
> If anyone knows of any shortcuts to a browseable file index, I'm all 
> ears...  :-\

Absolutely we do!

If you have the save sets in the media database, is there a chance that
you also have index backups in the media database too? If you make the
index backups recoverable you can repopulate the indices using nsrck
-L7. Far easier than scanning hundreds of tapes. You may have to make a
lot more save sets recoverable too.

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