Did you restore the mediaserver's media database after rebuilding it?

ChrisCosta AT tdwaterhouse DOT com wrote:
>  
> Has anybody seen this issue:
>  
> We have a Solaris8 Master Server running 4.5 FP5 and a Win2k Media Server
> running 4.5 FP5. The media server had severe hardware issues and needed to
> be rebuilt. It was rebuilt within the same day and it is working fine,
> however every time we try to recover data that was written to this media
> server before the rebuild we have errors and this was not the case prior.
> Due to the location of executives this media server performs recoveries
> every day. As I found out after the fact, the mediaDB was not recovered
> after the rebuild. Besides this issue, there are other issues regarding
> media from this media server before the rebuild. For example, tapes that
> should not have expired are being overwritten, read errors from media that
> had performed recoveries before the rebuild.
>  
> Any help would be appreciated since I had rebuilt many media servers before
> and had never seen this issue before.
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Christopher Costa
> TD WATERHOUSE USA
> Enterprise Storage Engineer
> Phone: (201)-521-2939
> Email:  <mailto:chriscosta AT tdwaterhouse DOT com> chriscosta AT 
> tdwaterhouse DOT com
>  
> 


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