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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 source client as server1 and dest client as client1.  Please help.

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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.

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    unixlife
    Level 4
    13 years ago

    Thanks for your help..

    After removing the line from master server;

    CLIENT_NAME = AJVASUN

    I can not see the client AJVASUN in BAR GUI.  I am running the restore from MASTER server. Also added the empty file /usr/openv/netbackup/db/altnames/No.Restrictions, then restarted NB  by /etc/init.d/netbackup sto & start.  

    Directory db was not there but created. I can see the client in Host properties-->client and able to browse it to see all AJVASUN properties. BTW, AJVASUN is not part any NB policies. I just need to restore the backup which I have taken from Master server to this client AJVASUN.

    Any clue?

  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    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.

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    unixlife
    Level 4
    13 years ago

    Thanks for your help..

    It worked! I had to remove the client name from servers' bp.conf and type the client name in the "destination client for restore"  of BAR GUI. I was expecting the client name appear in the list as it appears in host properties --> client list.

    Thanks again for Marianne, Andy, oddie and mph999