I have tested this and it dumps it locally.  If you want to test, just 
shutdown nsr on the production server.  That is usually what I do to be 
safe. :)

On Monday 17 March 2008, Werth, Dave wrote:
> We're using Networker 7.2.2 on mostly Windows 2K or 2003.
>
>
>
> We are in the process of replacing our main file server with new
> hardware.  On the old server there are 3 file systems (that we want to
> recover) and they are backed up concurrently so the savesets are
> multiplexed on the backup tape.  So now I'm testing methods to recover
> the backups from the old server to the new one.  Over the weekend I
> tried doing it from the Networker User GUI.  Unfortunately it recovers
> the savesets serially which would require well over 24 hours to recover
> all 3 systems.  So I'm looking at using the 'recover' command to recover
> by SSID.  When I look at the command it's not clear to me that I can use
> the SSID version to recover to a different server than the original
> source of the savesets.  It looks like the -R (recover-target) parameter
> can't be used with the -S (ssid) parameter.
>
>
>
> I don't want to test it and possibly mess up the original server so I'm
> seeking advice about how best to proceed.
>
>
>
> More details:  the old server has E:\, F:\ & G:\ volumes that I want to
> restore to the same locations on the new server (which are all empty at
> the moment).  My thought is to run the recover command on the new server
> specifying the save set ID's of the backups from the old server.  What
> I'm afraid of is even though I'm running it on the new server it will
> try to restore to the old server disrupting the production going on
> there at the moment.  Of course when we do it for real we will keep the
> users off the old system until the transfer is complete.
>
>
>
> Thanks, Dave.
>
>
>
> Dave Werth
>
> Garmin AT, Inc.
>
> Salem, Oregon
>
>
>
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