Conference decwet::networker

480.0. "File missing from index" by SWETSC::WESTERBACK (Panta rei) Wed Mar 12 1997 11:47

    We have used Networker for NT Intel 4.3 for a couple of months, and
    done some restores without any problems (This is a single server
    edition, no client, on NT server 3.51).
    
    But today we needed to recover a directory (folder) which was accidentally
    deleted yesterday. We definitely know that the directory existed on a
    specific drive, and had done so for at least a week. (A user's personal
    file share was in this directory and she had been migrating her
    ALL-IN-1 store to an Exchange PST file during last week).
    
    Now when I enter the User GUI and start a recover session, I can't find 
    any trace of this directory! I've browsed the tree structure, and tried
    Find command (on all combinations of upper/lower case). It's not there.
    Have looked through the log files, no mention of any errors regarding
    this file. Other directories and PST files can be found, in several
    versions. 
    
    Is there any way a file or folder cam disappear from the index when it
    has been deleted?? In fact what happened at the deletion was that a new
    share with the same name was created for this user at a lower level on 
    the same drive, and the old one was deleted because the admin thought 
    it was empty. I can see the backup of this new one in the recover
    screen (but of course only one version from tonight). Can this have 
    any bearing, that the old and new folders have the same name?
    
    I see two possibilities to try, but as I'm not all thta familiar with
    Networker yet, I don't know how to do it:
    
    1) Can I recover the index from Sunday's backup, and use them to find
    the file (assuming it existed in the old index),maybe by renaming away
    the present index file, restoring an old one, doing a recover, then
    renaming back ths correct index file?
    
    2) I know which tape this file was put on if it was indeed backed up.
    Is there any way to "dump" the file and see what's on it, and maybe
    extract this file? Or can mmrecov somehow be used without damaging the
    present index?
    
    Rgds,
    Hans 

	Did you change the browse time to a point when the directory was
	still there?

    Hmmm, did we misinterpret browse time? I'm writing this from home,
    so I can't try it out now, but we noticed the browse time which was set
    for today, and thought it meant "browse backups for this date and all 
    previous dates". Are you saying it means something like "browse for all
    backups of files that existed on this date"? Will test tomorrow.
    
    Thanks,
    Hans

If a file is deleted, then a backup is done, a browse for
time=now will not show the file.  You need to set the browse time
back to a time when the file actually existed. 

Wes