Networker server has no index

what is the output from mminfo?

>mminfo -q client= -r sscreate,volume,ssbrowse,ssretent,clretent,pool,sumsize,ssflags,name

the list is long, what specifically are you looking for? Here is what I've tried last night

I scanned in the last full of the index

scanner -i -S XXXX -c server.domain.com

nsrck -L6 server.domain.com

nsrck: /dbvol/nsr/index/server.domain.com contains 0 records occupying 0 KB

Hi,

You might have the wrong date in your nsrck command which would cause this to fail.  What you can do is:

mminfo -avot -N index:[client name here]

Get the exact output of this command as the date for your nsrck command:

for example:

nsrck -t "2/2/2011 9:27:59 PM" -L7 [client name]

If you are still having trouble with the indexes, then you might want to bypass them for now and concentrate on just getting your data back first.   You can use saveset recover for this:

To recover the saveset without using the client indexes, run the following command:

1) On the server, run:

mminfo -q client=[client_name_here] -r ssid,name,level,savetime,ssbrowse,clretent,ssretent,sumflags,totalsize,clflags -ot > mminfo_output 2>&1

Replace only the client name in this command - everything else stays as it is. Check the resultant file mminfo_output and identify the saveset id (first column) for the saveset that you wish to restore - the savetime in the third column will give you the dates of the backup and the latest backups will be at the bottom of the results.

2) On the client, run (if you don't know the path to the file, you can leave that out, but be sure to have enough space in your destination for the entire saveset (totalsize column from mminfo output)

recover -vvvvv -s [nw_server_name_here] -d [destination_to_recover_to] -S [ssid] [/complete/path/to/file]

for example: 

Saveset Recover Unix Example

mkdir /recov

recover -vvvvv -s vm-lego-230 -d "/recov" -S 1725715655 /etc/krb5.conf

-Bobby

I can't even do this

nsrck -L7 -t 02/01/12 server.domain.com

nsrck: checking index for 'server.domain.com'

9343:nsrck: The file index for client 'server.domain.com' will be recovered.9348:nsrck: The index recovery for 'server.domain.com' failed.39078:nsrck: File index error: can't find index backups for 'server.domain.com' on server 'server'

server.domain.com and server are the same NW server, my only NW server.

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mminfo -avot -N index:[client name here]

Get the exact output of this command as the date for your nsrck command:

for example:

nsrck -t "2/2/2011 9:27:59 PM" -L7 [client name] ..."

This gave the same error.

I am able to recover the data so that is good. I manually ran a backup of the server this morning also and it appears that my NMCASA directive is failing which may be causing my index issue. I removed that directive and the index was updated with the backup for the manual run. I still need to get my old index merged in somehow.