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 Backup info(all client and their backups) from old server into this new server so that if any request of old restore comes, it will be served from this new server. Is it even possible to achieve this!!!?
I have been reading about the "Recovery without import" white paper and it says somthing about cat_export and cat_import step. but the problem is there is no Cat_export command on source (NB 6.0) server. I have done the step where it sas to copy the contents of /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images to the destination server.
I cant brows the backup of any client of old server as there isn't any info about them in NBU GUI (BAR window).
i do have the backup tape of catalog of old server.
Waiting for your kind response.
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