powermeck Posted February 27, 2003 Report Share Posted February 27, 2003 Hi, recently the first of our archive tapes went bad. I have set it to missing in the backup set, nevertheless every time I restore files from the archive tapes Retrospect starts by asking for 1-Archive. Is there another way of declaring a tape as missing? Thanks for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powermeck Posted February 28, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2003 Ok - here's my solution for really getting rid of a broken tape. First I erased the tape as suggested by Dantz tech support, but Retrospect kept asking for the broken one. Next I recreated the catalog from the remaining tapes. Took a couple of hours, but Retrospect is not asking for the tape anymore - and the catalog even works with the tape copies that I had made months ago. For tape copying, by the way, Novastor Tape Copy is really cool. cheers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted March 3, 2003 Report Share Posted March 3, 2003 If you do a search restore, Retrospect will bring up all files that match your search criteria (regardless of whether or not they are on a missing tape). Any files on a "missing" tape will have a starburst next to the name (similar to '*'). If you mark these files for restore, Retropsect will request the tape. The starburst indicates the file is on a missing backup set member. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powermeck Posted March 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2003 I absolutely agree, Amy. What I wanted though is to get rid of all lost files and their starburst icons. The tape was gone anyway, so why keep the filenames :-) cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted March 4, 2003 Report Share Posted March 4, 2003 The tape was gone anyway, so why keep the filenames :-) In some cases, users may "find" the tape. It may have gone missing, rather then be damaged. In these cases, they can add the backup set member to the set once again. It also provides users with a way to know what files were on the damaged/missing tape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powermeck Posted March 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2003 Uhm, I think I have to take back that I found a solution. Today when I started restoring from the archive tape Retrospect again asked for 1-Archive - which has been broken, erased, and the archive catalog has been rebuilt from scratch. Is there any way I can really, really get rid of 1-Archive? I have archive tapes 2-4. Thanks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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