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Philip_Drew
Level 4
16 years ago

NBU 4.5 MP9 Novell to Windows restore

Hi,

I've been asked to restore some data from one of our legacy systems.  The configuration is as below:

Veritas Netbackup 4.5 MP5
Source Novell Netware file server backed up using the Standard policy type
Destination Windows file server.

Has anyone had any experience in restoring from a standard policy backup to a windows NT destination server and if so have you any guidance ?

If not I'm faced with building a Novell Server and attempting a NBU client installation on it.

Thanks in advance.
Philip

7.1.x and Earlier
Backup and Recovery
NetBackup
  • Bill_Johnson1's avatar
    Bill_Johnson1
    Level 4
    16 years ago
    http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/290011.htm

    According to the link above, you cannot restore data from NetWare to Windows or UNIX/Linux.

    NetWare backups use two streams, a data stream and a security stream. When performing a restore to a NetWare server, the NetBackup client is looking for the two streams to create the data.

    A Windows or UNIX/Linux client uses a single stream. The security and data are backed up together. If you attempt a restore of NetWare data to a Windows or UNIX/Linux server, the NetBackup client will ignore the second stream of data and only restore the first stream, the security stream.


    Bill