Gene Heskett on Thu 23/01 20:13 -0500: > > Several years ago I moved two clients from Networker (Sun's > > version). They have never looked back. One client in particular was > > pissed at Legato's claim (at the time) that because the backup host > > had died, there was no way to recover any of the existing backups. > > 'scuse me Jon. If I was that client, paying thru the nose and got > that reply, I think my next call would have been to the lawyers. > They have a certain amount of responsibilty to facilitate recovery > from *any* failure, after all, thats what you are paying them for. > Thats in-excusable for a commercial product to have that kind of an > attitude. But then I think, from my conversations with knox, that > knox would probably be a somewhat nicer situation. Can anyone testify > any differently? OTOH, if you can get one of their tapes into a drive > that will read that tape, all the stuff to do a from scratch recovery > is actually on the tape itself as a lengthy header that you can dd > back, uncompress and run to get the rest of it. On every tape, just > grab one and go.
well, id did qualify it with "at the time." I remember a utility called "scanner" that came with Networker that could be used to reconstruct indexes from tape, in our version. Who know what it was like many years ago.
