> I have 2 instances of Networker - a Network Edition,
> and a Business Edition. (The Business Edition is for a remote site; it's
> easier than making it a storage node, because sometimes the connectivity
> to that site goes out, and without connectivity, a storage node won't run
> a job).
> 
> I have the same client, defined on both servers (but with different client
> IDs).
> 
> Now, if I were to take an old tape, created on the Business Edition and
> want to scan in it's contents to my Network Edition (so I could perform a
> restore from that tape here, using the Network Edition and it's hardware
> resources), would I be able to scan that tape? The recover will be
> redirected to a folder here, so it wouldn't need to go back to it's
> original location.
> 
> Would I have to create a new client, with the client ID on the tape,
> before I could scan the file entries from the tape, into the mm database
> on the Network Edition? OR .. can I just do a "scanner -c
> client-name-that-already-exists-in-Network-Edition"?
> (or can I / should I change the clientID in the Network Edition to match
> the clientID on the tape, so that I just scan as I would normally, to
> repopulate a mm database from tape?)




Backup savesets are owned by client id, not client name.

Client id's can be reassigned, but cannot be deleted from the media database 
once created.


Method one:  On the local server:

 - create a new client with the same client id that was on the remote site.
 - If the pool for that volume you want to scan is not define, then define it
 - run scanner command


Method two:  On the remote server:

 - define the the client you want to recover to as a client of the remote 
server, then use the remote server to perform a directed recovery.


Method three:  On the remote server:

 - use directed recover to an existing client on the remote site, then zip up 
and ftp over to the local site.

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