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MSI_iqbal
Level 5
10 years ago

Cat_import command but no catalog was imported

Dear All,

 

I have Netbackup 7.6 master server installed in Windows server 2008 R2. I wants to restore from a expired image backup in tape, the problem is i dont even know in which media id the backup images is stored. So i have to restore catalog file which the image backup wasn't expired yet.

So i restore the catalog file, move it to db.export folder then execute cat_import -client client_name. But the command say

 cat_import : no images found.

Best regards,

Iqbal

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  • RiaanBadenhorst's avatar
    RiaanBadenhorst
    10 years ago

    Which catalog back did you restore? The last one or a previous one from days, weeks, months ago? (which is another big problem)

     

    Any ways, as Marianne stated it would just expire all those images if you start the services.

     

    If you want to "go back in time" you can restore the catalog on ANOTHER standby master, and then make sure you had set the time to be for the same time frame so that the images wont' be expired immediately.

     

    HAving said all that, if you're not taking tapes out of your library, the chances are that NEtBackup would have used the tapes by now for some new backups.

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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    10 years ago

    The backups with missing fragment 1 can obviously not be restored.

    Are you seeing TIR errors during import?

    If so, please share details.

    Or else - time to let this go... 
    Tell the user that the backups have expired and tapes were overwritten.

  • MSI_iqbal's avatar
    MSI_iqbal
    Level 5
    10 years ago

    when phase 1 run there is no TIR error, but when phase 2 error says: cannot find TIR information.

    yes, and then we can sing along together.

     

  • MSI_iqbal's avatar
    MSI_iqbal
    Level 5
    10 years ago

    Dear All,

    Thanks for all your times guys. Need to "Let it go", and search it in the offsite tape. Mark Riaan post as solution because that's the nearest solution to successful backup, unfortunately the tape for fragment 2, 3,... already have been overwritten.

    Best regards,

    Iqbal