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October 14th, 2009 05:00

another scanner command thread

sorry guys to open this one but i am desperate finding answers

i have a backup on a recylable tape with no index. i do not know which version was the tape written. now i want to scan the tape for indexes because i need only few files from the tape and do not have enough storage for saveset recovery. the backupr esides on 7 tapes.

is this the right approach with the scanner command ran from the storage node?

scanner -q -S MYSSID -s MYSERVER -i rd=MYSTORAGENODE:\\.\Tape1

if so. how do i know which was the first tape? does it even matter which tape i mount to start the scan? shall i mount or just load? is there a difference?

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October 14th, 2009 07:00

checked mminfo command reference guide which says h
should be head t - tail and m - middle. so the first
one will be the first tape.

Correct. Also, make sure to make nsrmm -o notrecyclable -S ssid for your ssid before you start scanning it. If you delete it, then scanner will read it too and dates will be reset as the save has happened on the time when scanner was done.

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October 14th, 2009 06:00

First tape will have ssflags (or sumflags, don't remember now) with header mark which you can see from mminfo. Actually, with mminfo you can easily see in which sequence data was written.

Scanner command looks good. Obviously, if this is expired tape/saveset you must change that first with nsrmm and only then do scanner (even if you have index backup still somewhere nsrck -L7 -t time client name would be faster).

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October 14th, 2009 07:00

what do i have to do with the saveset? delete it?

i checked all the volumes containing the backup and they have all these flags which lead me to the question how do i know which was the first one...

client created ssid ssflags fl
clientname 13/01/2007 2175344289 vrEF hE
clientname 13/01/2007 2175344289 vrEF tE
clientname 14/01/2007 2628415495 vrEF mE
clientname 13/01/2007 2175344289 vrEF mE
clientname 13/01/2007 2175344289 vrEF mE
clientname 13/01/2007 2175344289 vrEF mE
clientname 13/01/2007 2175344289 vrEF mE
clientname 13/01/2007 2175344289 vrEF mE

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October 14th, 2009 07:00

checked mminfo command reference guide which says h should be head t - tail and m - middle. so the first one will be the first tape.

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October 15th, 2009 09:00

Hi PPL,

Crevlin, "nsrmm -o notrecyclable -S ssid" what does it do ?

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October 15th, 2009 12:00

It changes saveset status from recyclable to not recyclable.

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October 21st, 2009 05:00

the saveset resides on 7 tapes.
i have a tape reading failure du to hardware problem after 3rd tape. do i have to start form begining or can run it for the rest ?

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October 21st, 2009 05:00

Save set 2175344289 cannot be marked as notrecyclable.
Please specify the ssid/cloneid of the particular clone instance.

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October 21st, 2009 07:00

Change -S ssid to be -S ssid/cloneid
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