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ArsalanAlli
Level 3
6 years ago

Recovery Without import (very awkward situation)

Hello, I have run into very awkward sitaution here, our client is running Netbackup 6.0 (i know its EOL) on solaris and they recently purchased Netbackup 8.1.2.  So they want to import all the Back...
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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    6 years ago

    So, the 6.0 images (with header files) are now lying in <client-name> folders under /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images, right? 

    Do you have a list of the 6.0 client names? 

    You can try to do cat_import for one client name as a test:
    Examine contents of /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images<client-name> to identify header files.
    Run 
      cat_import -client <client-name>
    or a specific image: 
      cat_import -backupid <backupid>

    When done, see if the header files are gone from images folder and if you can browse for this client's backup.
    If successful, do the same for all client names.

    cat_import -all 
    is another option, but I won't recommend that without knowing how many clients and amount of images. 

    Command Reference for cat_import : 
    https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/15263389-127350397-0/v62313450-127350397

     

ArsalanAlli's avatar
ArsalanAlli
Level 3

Thanks for the response Marianne,

Yes all the client images are present in /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images in their respective client folders. 

When i ran the command cat_import it gave this error.

cat_import : </usr/openv/netbackup/db.export/images/bedbm31> does not exist
no entity was found

do i have to plcae the files in db.export ? there is no db.export directory under netbackup and here are contents of one of the client:

#ls

1197000000  1199000000  1200000000  1202000000  1203000000  1204000000  1213000000

where is the header file in here ?

Marianne's avatar
Marianne
Level 6
6 years ago

I have to say that I have never actually tried this. 

My recommendation would be to perform any further tests in a lab environment to prevent the risk of damaging your new production environment. 

The error message seems to indicate that the command is expecting the headers in the db.export folder.
I wonder what will happen if you move the 6.0 folders into a db.export folder with the same path as per the error message. 

The header files are in the <date_stamp> folders (e.g. 1197000000) .
They have the same name as the .f files, just without any extention. 

Seems you will need to emulate the NBU 7.5 Upgrade process that performs the header migration.
I have tried to locate an online version of 7.5 Ugrade Guide, but have had any luck. 

I found a forum post that seems to contain extracts from this manual with manual steps/commands:
https://vox.veritas.com/t5/NetBackup/Is-it-Necessary-to-Use-Image-Meta-Data-Process-when-upgrading/m-p/525474#M124082

I am hesitant to tell you to try any of these commands in your production environment...

  • ArsalanAlli's avatar
    ArsalanAlli
    Level 3
    6 years ago

    "My recommendation would be to perform any further tests in a lab environment to prevent the risk of damaging your new production environment. "

    Too late.. copied all the ../db/images contents to ../db.export/images and ran cat_import and guess what...

    it was successfull. All the images have been imported and i can brows them in BAR GUI. now the only thing remaining is runing the actual restore process. 

    Ill update this thread once i perform restore.

    Thanx Marianne for your help, you really saved me alot of time and effort. :)

    • Marianne's avatar
      Marianne
      Level 6
      6 years ago

      Glad to hear!

      The more I read in the last half-hour or so, the more I started getting nervous of trying 'stuff' without knowing for sure what the effect would be in a production environment.
      The worst one can do is to mess up directory structures under db/images... 

      I think I am more relieved than you are! :smileytongue: