Let me first make these comments:
– A single save set that spans 15 tapes – not a good idea, in general
– Changing the browse (and retention) once the save set is not browsable any more will not repopulate the CFI info which
has been deleted when it changed state from browsable to recoverable/recyclable.
If you really need the CFI info, you must run “scanner -i” for that save set.
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In general you have 3 options for a standard file system backup which start the save set as ‘browsable’:
1. Recover by rebuilding the file index info first
Of course the client file index must be available (the metadata must be retrievable within the data stream).
If you have deleted the client in the meantime, you must first
– ensure that you can resolve the hostname (worst case by an entry in the local hosts file)
– recreate a client resource (the exact parameters do not matter because you don’t want to run backups)
– I do not remember exactly any more but you might need to set the browse and retention dates for the save set high
enough so that the current policies would not automatically delete the metadata immediately again.
– rebuild the CFI with “scanner -i”
– recover the file(s)
2. Recover the whole save set to a temp directory and get the file(s) from there.
3. Run a subset recovery like
recover -iR -R <dest_client> -d <dest_directory> -S <ssid> -a “exact_pathname_what_to_recover”
– This of course implies that you know the exact pathname (directory- or file name)
– Be aware that NW will read the whole save set … which may take a while … but only recovers what you want
You better familarize with the command on a small (sub) save set 😉 .