One thing that may be a good question to ask... Are the save sets NDMP? These 
would not be scannable other than for a media index rebuild. If the index are 
not available then the option for these is to restore and backup again, not 
great but the only option.

Regards 

Mark

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On 10 Oct 2012, at 19:20, Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney AT NDSU DOT EDU> wrote:

> In regard to: Re: [Networker] Why doesn't nsrinfo show me saveset 
> details?,...:
> 
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you need to run a nsrck -L7 -t date
>> client to rebuild the client indexes even though you've used scanner?
> 
> That's incorrect, since scanner -i was already run.
> 
> nsrck -L7 works by reloading a copy of the index from tape.  That only
> works *if* there's a viable copy of the index for the client in question
> on tape.
> 
> scanner -i actually reads the contents of the saveset(s) and recreates,
> from scratch, index entries, which it inserts into the index.
> 
> As the man page for scanner indicates, since NetWorker 6.x, the fastest
> way to get a client index back is
> 
>    scanner -m
>    nsrck -L7 -t whatever clientname
> 
> but that will only work if you have the indexes.
> 
> scanner -i will work even if you don't have the indexes.
> 
> Tim
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