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Looking for verification. I need to do a restore from a tape that has
expired. Ordinarily, I would change the expiration dates on the CFI
saveset, and the saveset I want to recover, and nsrck -L7. Unfortunately,
I recalled the wrong tape .. and we're closed tomorrow, and I wouldn't get
the tape until Monday.

What I do have, though, are the tapes with the actual data savesets on
them. So, to avoid waiting days for a index tape to come back, I should be
able to do:

Scanner -i -S <saveset ID I need> \\Tape2147483636 (i.e., the tape device
as shown in NMC; I would be doing this from Windows)

And that should rebuild just the index I need, and I can then do a
recover? (I don't want the entire saveset, only 1 file in it). That should
rebuild the index; I can then change it's expiration; browse using the GUI
to the file I want, and go.

Yes?
(Been a long time since I've had to do a scanner command like that)


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Philadelphia Housing Authority
2500 Jackson St
Philadelphia, PA 19145
Tel: 215-684-4180
Cell: 215-252-0143
<mailto:michael.leone < at > pha.phila.gov>


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On 10/11/11 14:28, Michael Leone wrote:
Looking for verification. I need to do a restore from a tape that has
expired. Ordinarily, I would change the expiration dates on the CFI
saveset, and the saveset I want to recover, and nsrck -L7. Unfortunately,
I recalled the wrong tape .. and we're closed tomorrow, and I wouldn't get
the tape until Monday.

What I do have, though, are the tapes with the actual data savesets on
them. So, to avoid waiting days for a index tape to come back, I should be
able to do:

Scanner -i -S <saveset ID I need> \\Tape2147483636 (i.e., the tape device
as shown in NMC; I would be doing this from Windows)

And that should rebuild just the index I need, and I can then do a
recover? (I don't want the entire saveset, only 1 file in it). That should
rebuild the index; I can then change it's expiration; browse using the GUI
to the file I want, and go.

Yes?
(Been a long time since I've had to do a scanner command like that)



Yes, that should work.


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why do you want to rebuild index ?

even with expired saveset,
you can just recover entire ssid using saveset recover
to an alternate location
(recover -S ssid/cloneid -d relocatepath)
or, if you know the path of the data you need
recover -S ssid/cloneid -d relocatepath <path to recover>

It will be in any case always faster ...

Th

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Looking for verification. I need to do a restore from a tape that has
expired. Ordinarily, I would change the expiration dates on the CFI
saveset, and the saveset I want to recover, and nsrck -L7. Unfortunately,
I recalled the wrong tape .. and we're closed tomorrow, and I wouldn't get
the tape until Monday.

What I do have, though, are the tapes with the actual data savesets on
them. So, to avoid waiting days for a index tape to come back, I should be
able to do:

Scanner -i -S <saveset ID I need> \\Tape2147483636 (i.e., the tape device
as shown in NMC; I would be doing this from Windows)

And that should rebuild just the index I need, and I can then do a
recover? (I don't want the entire saveset, only 1 file in it). That should
rebuild the index; I can then change it's expiration; browse using the GUI
to the file I want, and go.

Yes?
(Been a long time since I've had to do a scanner command like that)


--
Michael Leone
Network Administrator, ISM
Philadelphia Housing Authority
2500 Jackson St
Philadelphia, PA 19145
Tel: 215-684-4180
Cell: 215-252-0143
<mailto:michael.leone < at > pha.phila.gov>


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why do you want to rebuild index ?

even with expired saveset,
you can just recover entire ssid using saveset recover

As I said, I don't want the entire saveset; it is a couple hundred gigs or
more. I only want a single file out of it.


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Look again at the second statement in Thierry's response:

"or, if you know the path of the data you need ... recover -S
ssid/cloneid -d relocatepath <path to recover>"

Just specify the full pathname of the files or directories you need, at
the end of the command line. Only those paths are recovered.

I believe people waste way too much time recovering and rebuilding file
indexes (scanner -i, nsrck -L7 -t) when a simple save set recovery could
be used.

Rick

On 11/10/2011 8:01 AM, Michael Leone wrote:
why do you want to rebuild index ?

even with expired saveset,
you can just recover entire ssid using saveset recover
As I said, I don't want the entire saveset; it is a couple hundred gigs or
more. I only want a single file out of it.




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