Greetings:
This may seem like a very elementary question to ask, but I've inherited a mess and I'm having to come up with some sort of plan to resolve it.
What I have is a couple of media sets which appear to have been uncataloged by my predecessor, pretty much since their creation. Backups have run on these sets over a period of years, stretching over several tapes, but I can not search them because of the lack of cataloging. I can restore from snapshots taken during backups, which is what I believe this person must have been doing (and explains why he was always in such a mood when asked to find anything in backup), but with an incremental backup set, data could stretch over weeks and months of snapshot data. As you can likely guess, this individual is no longer with the company, hence my mention of the mess I've inherited.
The question is, is there a way to generate searchable catalogs from the snapshot data, withouth bringing every single tape in the media set out of storage and cataloging them? I'm guessing the short answer is no, but as that I have to deal with a secure backup facility to get all this material back, I figure I should ask first. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer.