adding tapes to a backup set, can it be done?

[philmaul]

here's what happened, i erased the first tape in a normal multi-tape backup set (around 24 tapes), so i could recycle it and use as new, the tape contained stuff from 2000 and i figured we wouldn't need anything from 2000. unfortunetly after erasing the tape retrospect deleted everything in the the catalog. i tried to rebuild the catalog from the second tape and found out each tape will take 6 hours (we're using 40/80 DLT tapes with an autoloader). so instead of taking days to try and restore from oldest first i had the bright idea of telling retro that each of those old tapes were missing and just used the latest tape to restore the catalog figuring i could go back (newest to oldest) and tell retro that i found each tape and it add that tape to the catalog. well, when i select the next to newest tape and click set found nothing happens. i am using retro ver. 5.0.238. is there anyway i can get the catalog rebuilt without stopping the backups for a week? oh and lesson learned, don't erase the first tape in a huge backup set. please help.

 

thank you.

[natew]

Hi

 

If you have been including your Retrospect catalogs in the backup you could:

-rebuild from the last tape

-Restore a recent version of the catalog and use that

Just a thought.

 

By the way- erasing the tape was not what erased your catalog- running a recycle backup is what does that.

 

Nate

[philmaul]

i didn't realize you could backup the catalog file, i thought since it was being written to, it couldn't be backed up. i only do recycle backups on the weekend when i backup everything, the backups i do during the work week are normal backups. i guess i will just have to press on and set the catalog to be backed up. thanks for the info!