denniskane Posted August 16, 2003 Report Share Posted August 16, 2003 I need to rebuild a catalog from a ton of tapes using an autoloader. Even when I scanned the tapes in the magazine, catalog repair could see only the tape loaded. It wanted me to find the tapes one-by-one. I must be doing something wrong. Help. Dennis Kane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted August 21, 2003 Report Share Posted August 21, 2003 Hi Can you give some details about the OS, Backup device, and SCSI card you are using? Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denniskane Posted September 10, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2003 Retro 5.0238 Mac OS X 10.2.6 Adaptec ATTO UL3D I have 50 tapes to go through to rebuild the catalog. I estimate that this will take 11 days if Retro could look for the tapes in the magazine. I am getting the impression that it can't. If it can't it will probably take me a month to do the rebuild. I do have a copy of the corrupted catalog, though. I can't repair it because when I do, retro bombs with either a consistency check failed: memory.c-747 or a consistency check failed: arc.c-1590. Not sure which and I can't check now since I'm trying to rebuild the catalog. So, is there anything I can do to make retro look through the magazine for the tape it wants, just like it does for automated backups? Hey, here's a desperate move. Do you suppose that I can delete the last third of the corrupted catalog and then try repairing it? Maybe that would delete the part of the file that causes retro to bomb with the consistency check failure. A repair of the catalog that rebuilds the most recent third of the tapes would be a lot faster than rebuilding from scratch. Moral - backup those catalogs! Dennis Kane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denniskane Posted September 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2003 Discovered that you can select Control->Run unattended and reduce your clicks to hitting "Yes" each time a tape is needed (the autoloader then looks for the tape), but that's not much of a help. You still have to be present at each tape boundary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denniskane Posted October 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2003 Well, Quickeys did the job. They offer a 30 day demo, which is currently doing the job. Guess I should buy the real version since it's saving my bacon. Running unattended + Quickeys = success Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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