Re: [Networker] Speed up scanning on numerous tapes (additional detail)

EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
11/04/2009 10:22:24 AM:

> If tapes are EXPIRED but not relabelled yet, you do not
> need to scan tapes to recover from. Use recover -S SSID.

This will give you the whole saveset, mind you. If all you want is just 
certain files/directories out of that saveset, you would have to tell it 
to give you just those.

> Rebuiling/restoring CFI is only needed if you want to browse
> old backup's file namespace.

If you don't know exactly what files/directories you need out of the SSID 
above, then you'd have to runn scanner, so that you could browse, and pick 
and choose.

> If you know the path you want to recover, you can use
> recover -S SSID [-d relocated path] <path to recover>
> It will start reading the tape and just recovering the
> <path to recover> directory.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Th
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
> On
> Behalf Of Len Philpot
> Sent: mercredi 4 novembre 2009 15:53
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Speed up scanning on numerous tapes (additional
> detail)
> 
> > Len Philpot 
> > 
> > Theoretical / procedural question -
> > 
> > Has anyone ever had to scan in, i.e., using "scanner", MANY (i.e., 
> > possibly hundreds) of old expired tapes? If so, is there any way to 
> speed 
> > up that process?
> 
> I hate to reply to my own question, but I just thought of this and maybe 

> this matters... 
> 
> The theoretical tapes are still in the media indexes, but have long 
> expired all the savesets browse policies. I've never done a saveset 
> recovery, but I assume I still could at this point. I don't think that's 

> an option for other reasons, but it could technically be done, right?
> 
> Thanks.
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