Hi Kurian,

a) You cannot "browse" the individual files (or any other objects) contained on 
a saveset looking at the media db. You need to use either 
the "networker user" or "nwrecover" GUI  or the nsrinfo command ( CLI). They 
will extract that information from the client file index (if there is no 
index you won't be able to browse -- and if the index cannot be recovered then 
it won't be possible to browse the NDMP savesets because 
scanner cannot create index entries with NDMP savesets). 

b) There is on need to clone all the savesets from a volume if you don't want 
to. Create a list of the savesets using mminfo, then remove those 
you don't want to clone. Use the nsrclone command to clone that list of 
savesets  (you can put the list of savesets on an input file and tell 
nsrclone to read the saveset list form it)


Please note:

You need to understand basic networker concepts like
 - saveset
 - client
 - pool
 - volume
 - label
 - cloning

and read the following manual pages:
- nsrclone
- mminfo
- nsrinfo
(they are well documented and certainly not rocket science) 

You can find the networker manual pages on the command reference guide of your 
version of Networker or on the online manual pages on  
linux/unix (if the networker manual package is installed)
 
Once this is clear

1)  Use mminfo to produce a list of savesets 

2)  you can list  the contents of a browsable saveset using nsrinfo with the 
savetime or, alternatively, the "nsavetime" of that particular saveset 
and client (whcih you should have printed using mminfo)

3) use nsrclone to clone the savesets from the source tape to the target clone 
pool (make sure you have tapes labeled on the target). Use 
ssid/cloneid syntax to indentify what particular saveset instances you want to 
clone.

I hope this may help


 jee



On Thursday 24 February 2011 05:15:35 kurianv wrote:
> Hi Dmitri,
> Thanks a lot for your reply. I have two questions based on your reply.
>
> a) Thsi type of backup is an NDMP backup . So I am not able to see the file
> as such from the Networker Volume information. I can only browse the file
> from the Networker User program when restoring. So how would it be able to
> find the reference of the file from online media db ? Can you explain the
> detailed way to do it ?
>
> b) You said about cloning the entire data with exception to the specific
> file. But sicnce its under one specific saveset . The whole saveset has to
> be ignored while cloning the tape. Or is there any other way to avoind the
> specific file while cloning. Could you give a detailed way for this too ?
>
> Your suggestions are really valuable.
>
> Thanks  a lot in advance.
>
> Rgds,
> kurian
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