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unixlife's avatar
unixlife
Level 4
13 years ago

How to restore to an alternate client

Hello, I am trying to restore to an alternate client in NB7.5. Both Server and client are Solaris 10 (SPARC) but the restore is going to source client (which is the server1 itself)  In BAR I chose ...
7.5
Backup and Recovery
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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    13 years ago

    NBU client List is taken from Policy database.

    Always a good idea to create a small test policy to backup something like /var/adm just as a test to see if all comms are fine.

    It should also work if you simply type in the name of the destination client.

    Just verify that comms (port connection and forward/reverse hostname lookup is working fine).

    Do yourself a favour - create that test policy and kick it off manually. As long as there is no backup window, no backups will try to run automatically.

unixlife's avatar
unixlife
Level 4
13 years ago

Thanks for your replies..

I tried all the work arounds, but still it's going to the server itself, which is the MASTER and Media Server. Restarted NB  on both server and client by /etc/init.d/netbackup stop and start.

server /etc/hosts file


127.0.0.1       localhost
::1     localhost

x.x.0.100    ajva5000        ajva5000.xyz.com      loghost
x.x.0.9      AJVASUN       

server bp.conf file

>more /usr/openv/netbackup/bp.conf
SERVER = ajva5000
SERVER = ajva5000.xyz.com
SERVER = 123
SERVER = 345
SERVER = 234
SERVER = 4321
CLIENT_NAME = ajva5000
CLIENT_NAME = AJVASUN
CONNECT_OPTIONS = localhost 1 0 2
USE_VXSS = PROHIBITED
VXSS_SERVICE_TYPE = INTEGRITYANDCONFIDENTIALITY
EMMSERVER = ajva5000
HOST_CACHE_TTL = 3600
VXDBMS_NB_DATA = /usr/openv/db/data
SPS_REDIRECT_ALLOWED =
SPS_REDIRECT_ALLOWED =
SPS_REDIRECT_ALLOWED =
USEMAIL =
SERVER_SENDS_MAIL = YES
DO_NOT_RESET_FILE_ACCESS_TIME
 

client /etc/hosts file

#
# Internet host table
#
::1     localhost
127.0.0.1       localhost
x.x.0.9      AJVASUN  loghost
x.x.0.100  ajva5000

client bp.conf

SERVER = ajva5000
CLIENT_NAME = AJVASUN
CONNECT_OPTIONS = localhost 0 0 2
DO_NOT_RESET_FILE_ACCESS_TIME = YES
KEEP_LOGS_DAYS = 7
 

Any clue? please help...