does removing index media result to unrecoverable save sets?

[lnbnatera]

hi,

if i delete the four tapes beloning to the index pool (these tapes contain only index entries), will the savesets from the respective clients be recoverable?

thanks,

 

[NWNinja]

No, they will still be available for recover. But if the browse policy for the backup has expired, and you have re-labled the tapes containing the index backups, you will not be able to easily recover the index (nsrck -L7) in order to select a certain file or folder for recover. What you have to do in that case is either do a save set recover and recover an entire file system (you can specify a file/folder if you know the exact path to it), or you can run scanner -i on the tape containing the backup in order to build a new index entry for that backup. Please note that this might take a long time to do, so i would go for the save set recover and specify the path to recover if it is known.

Cheers!
Maverick