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April 16th, 2008 11:00

Yes, that's an option, but it is just a GUI representation of recover -n.

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April 14th, 2008 09:00

Mark:

In some case not all volumes are online. For example, when eject/withdraw some volumes. Is normal when try a recover (if any of this volume for recover are out of the Library) appear a messages " Not all volumes are on-line...".

When use recover first step is ask into recover cli for "volumes", this indicate what volumes are necessary and what of this offline (or out of library)

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April 14th, 2008 10:00

Mark:

In some case not all volumes are online. For example,
when eject/withdraw some volumes. Is normal when try
a recover (if any of this volume for recover are out
of the Library) appear a messages " Not all volumes
are on-line...".

When use recover first step is ask into recover cli
for "volumes", this indicate what volumes are
necessary and what of this offline (or out of library)


I got the first part. My issue though is i'm not trying to RECOVER; i'm just doing a VERIFY of various files/folders and the language it uses "recover' in the place of verify

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April 15th, 2008 05:00

Mark:

In some case not all volumes are online. For example,
when eject/withdraw some volumes. Is normal when try
a recover (if any of this volume for recover are out
of the Library) appear a messages " Not all volumes
are on-line...".

When use recover first step is ask into recover cli
for "volumes", this indicate what volumes are
necessary and what of this offline (or out of library)


when I do get the 'not all volumes are online' message will this prevent the verify from running or will it skip files that it may need?

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April 15th, 2008 06:00

Mark,

Recover will stall when it needs the volume that is
not on-line. There will be a request to mount the
necessary volume.

Vic


there's that word again: recover!!! Why does it use that terminology during a VERIFY operation, just curious. Thanks Vic

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April 15th, 2008 06:00

Mark,

Recover will stall when it needs the volume that is not on-line. There will be a request to mount the necessary volume.

Vic

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April 15th, 2008 09:00

Mark,

Could you explain what commands you're using. To my knowledge the recover utility doesn't have a verify option to it. I've been looking at the manpage (I'm UNIX) for it and don't see any verify option. The utility simply restores files, hope you don't accidently restore files when you don't want to.

Also, what vesrion of NW are you using?

Vic

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April 15th, 2008 12:00

What do you think verify is? It is recover of course. So what is the difference between verify and recover? Well, both will read but recover will bring back data while verify won't. Does it make more sense now?

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April 15th, 2008 12:00

Vic, I believe verify is nothing more then recover -n :)

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April 16th, 2008 04:00

Mark,

Could you explain what commands you're using. To my
knowledge the recover utility doesn't have a verify
option to it. I've been looking at the manpage (I'm
UNIX) for it and don't see any verify option. The
utility simply restores files, hope you don't
accidently restore files when you don't want to.

Also, what vesrion of NW are you using?

Vic


Hi. If you go into networker user there is an option to VERIFY files; verify that you have good backups you can recover. NOT the same as recover as far as I can tell. It's in the NW 7.4sp1 handbook on page 63 right before the seciton on de duplication

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April 16th, 2008 04:00

Vic, I believe verify is nothing more then recover -n
:)


that's what I thought but it isn't. It's a verification tool (supposedly) that you can use to make sure your files can be restored. It can't be used in UNIX

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April 16th, 2008 10:00

I'm not aware of any extra binaries on Windows that
would do that... Who told you that was extra tool?


i'm using NW 7.4sp1 on a windows box (only works for windows boxex). If you open NW user one of the options under operations is "file veriy". that's what i'm referring to

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April 16th, 2008 10:00

I'm not aware of any extra binaries on Windows that would do that... Who told you that was extra tool?

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April 16th, 2008 11:00

OK, I guess I was little confused here. When someone
says 'verify' to me it means you want to compare the
original file to the file that's one the backup tape.
Yes, usually done during a backup but I thought
maybe NW had a way with the recover utiltity.

In the recover manpage it says:

-n Does not write or create any files or
directories when recover-ing.

So basically you're verifying that the backup media
is good for those files or directories.

Vic


Great! I tjhank you guys'. I think I need to familiarize myself more with command line options!

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April 16th, 2008 11:00

OK, I guess I was little confused here. When someone says 'verify' to me it means you want to compare the original file to the file that's one the backup tape. Yes, usually done during a backup but I thought maybe NW had a way with the recover utiltity.

In the recover manpage it says:

-n Does not write or create any files or directories when recover-ing.

So basically you're verifying that the backup media is good for those files or directories.

Vic
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