I think I know the answer to this, but just want to make sure. 

Is there a way to recover (via scanner, or something similar) a tape
that someone accidentally overwrote a new label on?   In theory, the
data is still on the tape, it just has a new label.   

Has anyone had this happen, and successfully recovered the data? 

TIA. 

David M. Browning Jr.
IT Project Coordinator Enterprise Backups and Help Desk

 

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Davina Treiber
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:17 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Ubuntu Server and NetWorker Client Install

JGillTech wrote:
> davina wrote:
>> This is not a Linux specific issue, it is common to all Unix
flavours.
>> NetWorker reconfigures syslog.conf so that NetWorker messages will be
>> written to /nsr/logs/messages, but as you say this will also capture
>> messages from other daemons. It also has the effect of writing
NetWorker
>> messages to other places.
>>
>> I prefer to reconfigure syslog.conf when I install NetWorker. I use
>> local1.notice instead of daemon.notice. I then reconfigure the "Log
>> default" notification within NetWorker to send its messages to
>> local1.notice. I am making the assumption that no other programs in
the
>> system are using local1.notice.
>>
>> This is what I have in syslog.conf after modification:
>>
>> # Start of lines added by NetWorker etc.
>> local1.notice                /nsr/log/messages
>> # End of lines etc...
>>
>>
>
>
> Can you explain the notion of "facilities" and how daemon and local
pertain?  I am not sure I understand that different... my thoughts are
that all daemons are local to the system.  I am a Windows guy.. Linux is
not my strong suite.

Don't worry about the names, these are just conventions. These are ways
of classifying the logged messages and directing them to where you want
them. Think of daemon being the default and local0/local1 etc. being
user defined classifications. The warning/notice/alert part is the
severity or priority of the message.

>
> Where did you reconfigure NetWorker to send its messages to local1?
What type of information is stored in these logs?  I was under the
impression that logs were kept and maintained on the central NW server.
>

In the notifications, there is one called "Log default". This sends all
"notice" messages to daemon.notice by default, but you can change it to
something else.

The syslog daemon can be configured in many ways. Some sites use
syslog.conf to direct messages to a central logging server. The nearest
equivalent to syslog in Windows is the event log.

Does this help any?

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