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Ivy_Yang's avatar
Ivy_Yang
Level 6
13 years ago

Can we restore the data to a server which is not a NBU client?

hi, everybody! I have a problem about Netbackup restore. Currently I need to restore data from tape(NBU 6.5.4, master is X64_linux). The Policy Type is windows. Since the backup image is over 1...
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  • MN_Pankaj's avatar
    MN_Pankaj
    13 years ago

    Good responses above...

     

    Not clear about the meaning of - "destination server" and "non-NBU client" - in your original question - please clarify in detail...

     

    All NBU Servers have NBU Client within them, and so, would allow a NBU restore coming to it. But, if you mean restore to a box that has absolutely no NBU software installed (no server, no client) - no, you can't restore to it, since it's NBU Client that accepts the incoming restore data, unformats it, and restores it. The OS, by itself, doesn't have any software to accept incoming NBU data, much less unformat it or restore it...

     

    Second, the box where you restore to, should be same OS type and version as the source client OS, otherwise we can lose somethings during the redirected restore (depending on the source and target OS)...

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Marianne
Level 6
13 years ago

As per Peter's post above - you can restore to a NBU client where the folder from the non-NBU client is network mounted.

For Windows, it can be a UNC path, for Unix - NFS mount. Just as long as it's a Windows client mapping other Windows folder  or Unix client NFS-mount of destination folder.