Keith,
Your Master Server should have all the DB's stored on it, no DB's are stored on the Media server. So .......
what the disadvantage is to not recovering the media servers db? <--No DB's on Media Server.
If I do decide to recover it, do I need to manually load a tape into the library drive and run the bprecover command? < ------ Just restore it by re-installing the software.
then you all good.
J