while my scanner command is running, I'd like to check if the process I'm following is correct in principle.
I need to restore a saveset that is expired (browse and retention policy).
I know - I can see it from the GUI - that it's on tape 529 and I know it's SSID (3904375817).
Should I
1) mount tape 529
2) scanner -m -S 3904375817 \\.\Tape1
This is what I'm doing, the command has been running for a while and gave me the following output:
scanner: scanning sdlt320 tape CGE529S on \\.\tape1
scanner: sdlt320 tape CGE529S already exists in the media index
scanner: write failed, Not enough space
<< >>
scanner: the following save sets are still incomplete:
client name save set save time level size files ssid S
acedev09 /backup/acedev09 7/14/06 22:22 f 9986666124 4 3904375817
S
scanner: Press:
c to continue
n to go to next volume
q to quit
scanner -m will bring it back to media db only - you won't be able to browse it. To make it browsable again you need to use -L7 approach as you did. Another approach would be scanner -i, but before that remove ssid from media db and write down before file and record number of ssid. Then give those location ids to scanner and that should position fast on it and scan it and should make it browsable too.
now, I tried to recover this saveset but I cannot see it. And now if I use "show saveset" for this volume from the GUI, I have the message "there are no saveset"..
Is this due to the "write failed" error I had or what am I doing wrong?
I might have replied to myself but I've done "nsrck −L7 −t date " and I can now restore the files.
so.. the fact that I could see my saveset from the GUI, does it mean that I could just have done a "nsrck −L7 −t date " to update the index and restore my files without waiting 3hours for the scanner utility to complete?
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Posted August 8th, 2006 15:00