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Intore's avatar
Intore
Level 4
5 years ago

bprestore issues

Hi all, I have some problems with a restore from command line with "bprestore". I state that I can't restore using the GUI because the original folder contains more than 200,000 files and after some...
8.1.2
windows server 2012
  • Michal_Mikulik1's avatar
    Michal_Mikulik1
    5 years ago

    Hello,

    two tips:

    - use the same format in both rename file and filelist file (E:\ or /E/)

    - first, test the command with single-row filelist file, or with file specification directly in bprestore command (not using filelist). There is something wrong with this file.

    Regards

    Michal

  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    5 years ago

    Intore 

    You will need someone to have a look at your .txt files. 

    Looking in my post that you are referring you, you will see that my 'filelist' file had the same format as my 'rename' file.

    Try /E/SOURCE_PATH/file_1  in stead of E:\SOURCE_PATH\file_1

    Link to Veritas TN:
    https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100010417

    Best to add the amount of characters ( filepathlen) in the rename file as well.
    In my example, the source path had 12 characters  (/C/marianne/) and the destination path had 13 characters (/C/morejunk1/)

Marianne's avatar
Marianne
Level 6

Intore 

You will need someone to have a look at your .txt files. 

Looking in my post that you are referring you, you will see that my 'filelist' file had the same format as my 'rename' file.

Try /E/SOURCE_PATH/file_1  in stead of E:\SOURCE_PATH\file_1

Link to Veritas TN:
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100010417

Best to add the amount of characters ( filepathlen) in the rename file as well.
In my example, the source path had 12 characters  (/C/marianne/) and the destination path had 13 characters (/C/morejunk1/)

quebek's avatar
quebek
Moderator
5 years ago

Please see the exceprt from bprestore admin code...

When you restore to a Windows client, you can also use the following method
for specifying entries in the rename file. (Do not use this method for other
clients.)
rename bulength backup_filepath reslength
restore_filepath
Where:
bulength is the number of ASCII characters in the backup path.
reslength is the number of ASCII characters in the restore path.
The first backup_filepath that is matched is replaced with the restore_filepath
string.
For example, the following entry renames C:\fred.txt to C:\fred2.txt:
rename 11 /C/fred.txt 12 /C/fred2.txt
(Be sure to end the entry with a return.)

 

  • Lowell_Palecek's avatar
    Lowell_Palecek
    Level 6
    5 years ago

    Is your master server Linux or Windows? If it's Linux and you created the filelist file with a Windows editor, you may have introduced carriage returns (^M) at the ends of lines. A Linux NetBackup master server won't process such a line.

    As others have said, express your files in /E/path/file format. That's how the names are stored in the catalog. Bprestore may convert the Windows format for you; I don't remember.

    For Windows clients, I second quebek 's suggestion to make a habit of using the "rename n old path m new path" format. A Windows path can include " to ", which would cause NetBackup to parse the "change X to Y" format incorrectly.