scanner - sequence question for multi volume saveset

Hi Nick,

Unless your MDB is corrupted scanner command should ask you for the correct tape when it finish scanning the current tape.

You need to know though which one is the first tape, and you can check that in NMC->Media->Savesets.

Here type the SSID of the data you want to restore, and you will see the volumes that saveset is spread into.

This is the GUI approach, you can just run mminfo for that saveset and query the volumes for that saveset

Then query the tapes and you will see the flags of the saveset. the on with the flag "h" (header) is the one to scan first then, if there is no issues with the MDB the scanner command should show you a message like "finish with volume xxxx, please mount volume yyyyy and press intro".

Thank you.

Carlos.

Nick,

Scanner should prompt you to load the tapes in the correct order automatically.

You can work out what order the volumes were written to by using the mminfo command and reporting the mediafile numbers e.g.

mminfo -q saveset= -r client,name,mediafile,volume

The mediafile numbers should go up in sequence and therefore you can see the order in which the volumes were used.

Hope this helps

Regards,

Bill Mason