If it was archived, ie the "bparchive" command, then the restore & list commands needa "-A" to search these images. Annoying, IMO.
If it as just backed-up with a long retention, a much more reasonable definition of "archive, then standard restore methods apply. bpimagelist might be a good tool here. It doesn't care if they're bpbackup or bparchive images. Search the time frame for your server names: bpimagelist -d <start> -e <end> | awk '$1=="IMAGE" {print $2}' | sort -u That'll list all clients backed-up between the start & end dates regardless if there still active clients in the current setup. Field 12 of the IMAGE record is the backup type. Value=3 is a bparchive (user archive) image, the others are backup varieties. -M -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 12:48 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup vs Archive I'm looking from some data that is 3 years old, of some servers that were supposedly archived to tape way back when by no one knows who. The backup catalog for this time period shows none of these servers, and if I run them through the Restore application those servers return no records. Does archiving data write the data to some other place? Should I be trying to find this data some other way. I don't know that the data was archived, but I'm assuming that if it was backed up that it would be in the catalog (at least.) -Jonathan _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu