On Monday 01 July 2013 00:47:39 bingo wrote:
> @tony
> 
> Out of my experience your statement: 
>   "And as a side note, remember that a clone is exactly that, a clone. This 
> means that NW doesn't care the least whether you point it to a clone to do 
> the recover from or the original saveset." 
> is not really correct. At least not when NW selects the recover media.
> 
> NW will in fact always go for the original backup instance - precisely the 
> one with the lowest clone ID timestamp. This makes sense as otherwise he 
> might potentially grab the slower tape. It is a pain if you set the location 
> for a backup tape media to another value than your jukebox' name as NW will 
> not even choose another media - even if it is inside the autochanger - unless 
> you will force him to do so. And you can achieve that in several ways:
>   - mark the original backup save set 'suspect'
>   - for save set restores: specifiy the save set instance (-S ssid/cloneid)

Hi!

Yes, this was true in earlier versions. From 8.x up the selection mechanism is 
different.
Networker will now do the recover from any instance that is currently available.
So if you have the clone tape in the jukebox he will grab that and if you have 
a clone mounted
with the orignal in the box he will use the clone.

Makes a lot of sense and is how it should have been from the beginning :-)

Best
Dag