Restore

[beach2112]

Hello all, I need to get a restore from tapes that have expired but are still viewable under the saveset tab. Since they have not been over written how do I get the files to restore back on the client. When I go to ./nwrecover I am not able to search for the correct file to restore because they are not cataloged, but under the saveset on the master it still shows the tapes that were written to. If a restore from the saveset tab, how can I redirect the restore to the client.

Legato 7.2.2
Solaris 9

Thank you,
David

 

[605]

This is correct. NW keeps track of the save sets as longs as the media has not been relabled.

When you want to browse through the client's CFI, you must rebuild it first by scanning either a certain save set or the whole volume:
scanner -i -S ssid device or
scanner -i device

Another method would be to recover the whole save set to a temp location and get the file(s) from here. This may even be faster.

 

[denisfr]

Hello,

if you want to get file names without populating the index, you can do a recover with no write (assuming you know the SSID you plan to restore )

recover -s your_server -n -S SSID_number 2>&1 | grep “your_file”

Don't forget the -n option (it forces Networker to NOT write).

Then after, recovering a file (or a directory, or multiples) can be done with this command :

recover –f -s your_server -n -S SSID_number /dir1/file1 … /dir2/file2

with -d /tmp to relocate to another directory

This last command is launched from the client you want to recover to, of course.