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Rob74
Level 4
8 years ago

Read tape netbackup version

Can you read a Netbackup tape regardless of version? or must the version match that of the server that wrote the tape?  The catalog for the dates in question I am looking for are already expired, and...
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    Marianne
    8 years ago
    Cold catalog recovery was done with commands such as 'bprecover -l .....' to list what is on the tape and 'bprecover -r .... ' to recover.

    I don't have these old manuals to help with rest of command usage.

    There are also certain NBU processes that must be down for cold catalog recovery.
    You really need to locate a 6.x Troubleshooting Guide.

    Have you turned back the date on the master where you are trying to recover catalog? Otherwise all recovered images will expire the moment NBU is started.
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Rob74
Level 4

I was trying to recover the catalog tapes so I could get 6 months of catalog data, and not just 1 week.  Also I wanted to avoid reading 60+ tapes that were sent offsite that week.  The only data I have is what that they were doing cold cataloging at the time, and what tapes were sent offsite that week.  I performed a 6.x to 7.x in about 2012 but a request for data prior to my hire in 2010 when the retension was set to 6 months has been made.  I was hoping to recover the catalog on a test system to have 6 months worth of data for restores of data back in 2010. 

Marianne's avatar
Marianne
Level 6
8 years ago
Cold catalog recovery was done with commands such as 'bprecover -l .....' to list what is on the tape and 'bprecover -r .... ' to recover.

I don't have these old manuals to help with rest of command usage.

There are also certain NBU processes that must be down for cold catalog recovery.
You really need to locate a 6.x Troubleshooting Guide.

Have you turned back the date on the master where you are trying to recover catalog? Otherwise all recovered images will expire the moment NBU is started.