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mpw613
Level 3
13 years ago

Restore Catalog from Tape

Have a complex issue on our NBU 7.5 Master Server. Our Master Server crashed. Was running on a Dell PE 2950, with an MD1000 attached. Something happened with the OS of the Master Server and it would ...
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    mpw613
    13 years ago

    Worked with Symnatec Support over the phone and this is a summary they sent that, well, sums up what it took to get it working:

    -- To recover and resynchronize the NetBackup relational databases (NBDBs),tried bprecover -r -nbdb.
    still same issue.

    -- checked latest catalog backup and found latest catalog backup on 14th July.
    -- Seems,due to the latest catalog backup on 14th July i.e.after crash,while recover NBDB,it is capturing information from 14th July's full catalog information.
    -- Expired the catalog backup images which has been taken after server crash,so that bprecover can recover the NBDB before the server crash.
    -- Run the bprecover -r -nbdb to recover NBDB.
    -- Able to see the volume pools,storage units and groups.
    -- Checked with Restore and Image cleanup.Working fine.

     

    At first could not access the Media server, but after a reboot of the entire environment this was OK as well.

    Thanks for all your help mph999 Martin! Very much appreciated.

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mph999
Level 6
13 years ago

OK.

The DR file is emailed out or copied to a directory as specified in the Catalog Policy.

We will come back to this is shortly.

The other requiredment is you have the catalog tapes.

Catalog recovery goes like this :

1.  Build new server, NBU install the same, install path the same.

2. Configure tape drives/ library

3. Put catalog tapes in library

4.  Run inventory

5.  Run cartalog recovery wizard.

6. Supply DR file location.

7. Select Full recovery 

Let me look at the DR File issue ...

Martin