scanner oddities - watch out for continuation save sets!

So it happened, that we accidentally deleted a tape, with file and media index.

Consequently we re-read the tape with the scanner command (scanner -s nsrhost  -m -p -z -v ...).

What confused us a lot was the fact, that not all of the SSIDs that re-appeared in the media index were recoverable (or cloneable in our case):

An attemt to clone only reported

   ...

   5767:nsrclone: NSR server : busy

   5766:nsrclone: waiting 30 seconds then retrying

   ...

And at the server, we got the alert

      Tue 12:16:09 PM media waiting: Waiting for 1 writable volume(s) to

      backup pool ' ' disk(s) or tape(s) on

After a lot of researching we finally came to the insight that we

needed to also scan the "neighbouring" tapes, so that Networker got

the complete picture of savesets that span multiple tapes.

The overwhelming output of the scanner command run on the tape that

was accidentally deleted, had a hint:

   ...

   scanner: CONT NOTE ssid 4236283626, off 518781797512, flags 0x10103, info 1740881526

   scanner: ssid 4236283626: continued from ` ', scan for synchronization

   ...

The flags that the Saveset 4236283626 showed via mminfo were vF (for

"valid" and "finished (ended)") had given us no notion of the fact

that the SSID was continued: we would have expected an additional "C".

What is your opinion: is this a bug?

In any case, the man-page of the scanner command should contain a tip,

that there often will be continuation save sets           that might need a

re-scan with scanner, too.

Kind regards, Tom