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Can I restore backup from physical cartridge which is don't have barcode sticker and no information about backed up data
Hi everyone,
We have physical LTO5 cartridge without any sticker on it. We are sure that there is networker backup inside it but we also don't know which client backup it have.
So, is there any way to restore data from this cartridge?
wlee
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June 11th, 2018 10:00
After the scanner command completes:
Note: depending on the amount of data written to this tape, the scanner command can take a long time to complete.
wlee
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June 11th, 2018 11:00
To recover data that is on this tape, the tape volume and its contents must first be cataloged into the NetWorker Media database.
After the scanner command completes:
At this point, the mminfo should list all the backups that are on that tape volume. However, they would be in recoverable mode only.
Depending on what you want to recover, you can either perform a saveset recovery (for file system backups only), or you may still have to make the saveset browsable by using the scanner -i command .
For example: if you wanted to catalog the saveset=123456789 so that you can then "browse" and select what files you want to recover, or if this backup was done using one of the NetWorker modules, then you load the tape back into a tape drive, and run:
mminfo -avot -q ssid=123456789 -r mediafile,mediarec
scanner -i -f (mediafile#) -r (mediarec#) -S 123456789 (drive)
If successful, then the following will show that the saveset is now browsable:
mminfo -avot -q ssid=123456789
And you can now proceed with the recovery.
bingo.1
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June 11th, 2018 15:00
Sure this will be possible. You already received guidelines how to re-add the save set information. Then just recover the save set or part of it.
Be aware that you might need to re-add parameters like client(s) and /or pool(s) if they have already been deleted.