We have successfully done this by restoring an old version of the TSM
database which DOES know where the files in question live. We restore this
to a non-production server, then IF reclamation hasn't cleaned off that
tape, we can restore the file. (We call it a "hail Mary restore" :-} ).
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Mr. Lindsay Morris
Gresham Enterprise Storage
859-253-8000
Certified: AIX / ADSM / TSM / SP / HACMP
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Monahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 1:29 PM
Subject: Theoretical Legal Situation
> We have been going over our retention policies and came across some legal
> concerns. For this hypothetical situation, imagine a file that has been
> deleted from the client and has gone through the expiration process but
> still physically remains on one of the offsite tapes because they haven't
> yet been through reclamation. I know that it is well known that you can't
> restore data without the database, but the file still physically resides
on
> the tape, even though it has logically been deleted from the DB. Is it
> technically possible to use some type of data recovery service to pull the
> expired files off of the offsite tape? Could someone please clarify why
or
> why not this is possible? Even if you could extract the data, would you
> ever be able to read it?
>
>
> ===========================================
> John Monahan
> Network Administrator
> Liberty Diversified Industries
> (763) 536-6677
> ===========================================
>
