leydon Posted May 14, 2007 Report Share Posted May 14, 2007 Retrospect Single Server 7.0.265 running on Win XP PRO sp2 I had a 9 tape LTO3 catalog get corrupted and rebuilt it using the following method Tools/Repair Catalog/Recreate from Tapes. it asked for the last member. I put in Tape 9 it worked for hours on this, I then told it to stop using the Revert option Next day went back and did tools/Repair Catalog/Update Existing, selected the partial recreation above and let it run all weekend. The recreated catalog "seems" to be ok, it shows all 9 members, snapshots look ok, etc. I had to forget it then add it to use it in my backup script. Is the above the proper way to rebuild a tape catalog? I expected to have to feed retrospect all 9 tapes and that this would take days to complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted May 15, 2007 Report Share Posted May 15, 2007 If you have enabled "Fast Catalog File Rebuild" on the backup set, you need only the last tape to recreate. (At least that's the theory; I have never got it to work, but that's another story.) Since Retrospect says the catalog file is OK, it is OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leydon Posted May 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2007 Thanks, it looks like that's the default and so it saved me. It looks like Fast Catalog Rebuild works ( at least for version 7.0.265 and LTO3 tapes) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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