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technimdaxviii
Level 5
7 years ago

Restore and Recovery

Hi,   Good day everyone. Just wanna ask something. We're doing an offsite backup monthly. What are the other requirements to restore the backup from the tape to new hardware and software. Do I ne...
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  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    7 years ago

    Can we assume that you are referring to restore in a DR scenario?

    It will be best to have a catalog tape to restore NBU image db (partial recovery should be sufficient).

    The other option will be to import all tapes (phase 1 and 2), but that is a lengthy process - at least as long as the backups took. 

    Steps to replace and recover a master server in a DR scenario is documented in the Disaster Recovery chapter of NetBackup Troubleshooting Guide.

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Marianne
Level 6

Can we assume that you are referring to restore in a DR scenario?

It will be best to have a catalog tape to restore NBU image db (partial recovery should be sufficient).

The other option will be to import all tapes (phase 1 and 2), but that is a lengthy process - at least as long as the backups took. 

Steps to replace and recover a master server in a DR scenario is documented in the Disaster Recovery chapter of NetBackup Troubleshooting Guide.

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technimdaxviii
Level 5
7 years ago

Also, I configure to send the catalog file to the admin (Catalog_Backup_<ctime>_FULL)

Without the catalog backup, is this enought to recover the catalog to the new hardware?