How to recover BMR info ?
Hi,
We made a disaster recovery test. There were only images on tapes available for recovery. No catalog backup. Primary server was built from scratch and images were imported from tapes.
However after the import we were not able to run Bare Metal Recovery as there were no Bare Metal Restore Clients shown in the management interface.
We tried to import the info using bmrs:
bmrs -resource config -operation retrieve -client client_name -destination config_name
but it failed:
[Error] V-123-49 Operation failed.
The configuration "current" of client "client_name" does not exist.
What is the correct procedure to get BMR info on images imported from tapes? (If any?)
Regards,
Lubos
BMR info is not saved with the backup image. It is part of the NetBackup database.
You must have a NetBackup database backup to retrieve the BMR info.I have never done it, but one way to "recreate" BMR info for a particular client may be to install the same OS with the same name, install the NetBackup client, and run the following procedure. The disk structure (partitions) must be as close as possible.
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100024288For windows you can use this procedure to restore the system without bmr
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100045797For Linux and Unix it is more complex, as you cannot override OS files. I had done it once using another disk to boot a temporary OS — pretty much as is described by Jaime_Vazquez in this post.
https://vox.veritas.com/discussions/netbackup/full-linux-and-windows-restore-without-bmr-option/650270
