BMR step guide
NBU version 7.0, Operating system windows server 2008 enterprise, 64bits
hi mandar,
I have seen your videos on BMR but something is not yet clear to me, please can you list it out step by step, this is what i always do.
1. create a copy of the current client configuration
2.On the copy created right click and click on change, then on the interface that appears, click on network interfaces and change the IP address
3. Click on ok
4.Run prepare to discover...
5. On the PTD page, you change the mac address and give a name for the new configuration name.
6. click ok
7. Boot client PC.
i have done all these in two of the clients i have in my lab, but when i check discovered configuration, i never get to see anything. Under task it just keep on showing queued with the green running icon.
Can you check my steps and tell me where i am getting it wrong.
Also when i boot the client, is there a stage i would get to that should tell me that the PTD is not important anymore. (for example, if i get to the interface where i am to put in IP address and click on contact master server).... at this stage is PTD still valid or important.
Must i always add the driver packages to the SRT i am creating, because for that client that is giving me
this error "failed to retrieve any configurations from the server" i never added any form of driver package to the ISO or SRT.
what do you think and can you modify that step by step process for me, if i got it wrong.
2. Is it possible to restore a BMR backed up client that has 3 hard drives to another machine that has just one hard drive. (please consider this scenario for both clients in the same HW family and also for dissimilar clients).
Pity you did not ask BEFORE changing hostnames.....
You need to make changes in NetBackup (decommission, delete, etc) BEFORE doing something drastic such as changing hostnames . The master knows about the old hostname - it has NO IDEA about the new name.......
All I can suggest is to change the hostname back to what it was before.