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AndresV's avatar
AndresV
Level 6
29 days ago

Netbackup disaster recovery

Hi Guys,

Hi,

we have lost the Netbackup primary server which was installed on a Windows server, so next Saturday we will perform a disaster recovery procedure.

This primary server was installed by default but after a while the images folder was moved from drive C to drive E.

I´m trying to find documentation about this specific situation but is very confusing, I´m following article: https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/15179611-148872028-0/v95648579-148872028

in the article I see "Specify the default workgroup. Do not restore the domain", there is no information about rejoinig the new server to the domain.

If I recover the catalog to the default location, is it going to work? The idea is recover everything to the C drive (default) and then move to drive E:

  • HI AndresV 

    Without knowing the method you relocated from C: to E: it is difficult to provide specific help. 

    That said, there are a number of ways the relocation can be done

    1. Using the ALTPATH method, see this article for details https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100002250
    2. Creating a mount point - see this article https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100023881
    3. Using the nbdb_move command (it is located in the install_path\NetBackupDB\data folder). Refer to the command reference guide for details 

    If you can, I would strongly suggest logging a support case and have Veritas/Cohesity support help you, it may save a lot of trouble. 

    Cheers & good luck

    • AndresV's avatar
      AndresV
      Level 6

      Hi David,

      thank you so much for the information, we used ALTPATH method. So everything is on C drive except the images folder that is installed on E drive.

      So the idea would be to install everything on C drive, recover the catalog and then move manually the images to E drive.

      I don't know if  wizard is going to fail because I´m recovering to C drive instead E drive.

      • davidmoline's avatar
        davidmoline
        Level 6

        HI AndresV 

        TBH, I'm not sure of the behaviour for the recovery as this scenario is not something I've tried. If you have the ability to browse the catalog backup, you should be able to see how the files are catalogued (C: and/or E:) which may help. 

        Otherwise, can you provide enough space on both C: and E: to ensure whichever way it works it should have sufficient space to complete the recovery. Or, try it one way and see if it works. if it doesn't, then change the drive configuration to suit. 

        I suspect (but do not know) the recovery will put things back where they were (so some on C: and the rest on E:). 

        Cheers

  • Hi David,

    The size of the catalog is almost 1TB so try and see what happens is not an option. 

    Thanks anyway.

    • StoneRam-Simon's avatar
      StoneRam-Simon
      Level 6

      When doing a catalog recovery,  you don't chose where to restore to,  it's expected that the same paths exist as we're there when the backup was done, and NetBackup puts data back in the same paths.

      So as you have altpath files defined (there would be one for each client folder under the images folder) it would restore those altpath files to the images folder on drive C and would restore the data back to where it said that alt path referred to (so drive E in your case).

      If you don't have both the disks c and e mounted the recovery will fail.

      If you used symlinks method data would restore to drive C

      If you used mount (junction) method you need to create same mount/junction before starting the restore.