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- 13 years ago
Ok, progress. First off, Marianne- your picture reminds me of my mother-in-law and I feel like I'm at a family function here ;(.
Anyhow- the issue is not with tape, as I said, catalog backups were going to SAN disk except those vaulted on tape. What I discovered after some amount of cursing, was that in the activity monitor the "problem" was actually right there in plain clothes but since I was doing the recover from cmd line - who would have known.
Even though the DR file was edited to tell it where to look for the images, the recovery apparently needs the identical storage unit which the original catalog backup was made on existing on the new hardware. So, I took a SAN snapshot of the source LUN, gave it to the new box, mounted it, and voila- I can recover the DB in a jiffy. How cool is that.
Thanks folks for your suggestions. Oh - and for those with enquiring minds 6.5.6 DOES run on 2008R2SP1 just fine thank you. On to the 7.x upgrades....yeeee haw