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KBfinder506's avatar
KBfinder506
Level 3
30 days ago

restoring file from linux source to windows target; is possible?

Hi people: 

We are using NBU 10.x on windows 2022 media/master server (both roles same server). 

Have a mix of windows and linux clients. We need to restore a file from /wrk/app/app-baks.tar to a windows server on e:\wrk\app. 

My co-worker running this restore tells me that NBU GUI is telling that restore path is invalid. Tried e:/wrk/app but don't work. And seems that isn't supported.

Any idea to accomplish this task ? Maybe UNC or and NFS on the same server?

Hope to being clear.

 

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  • StefanosM's avatar
    StefanosM
    Level 6
    30 days ago

    Try /e/wrk/app as restore path.

    But in general restoring windows to Linux an vice-versa Is not supported.

    You restore may be successfull but it is unpredictable as files may be corrupted. Text files have better chance to restore correctly. 

  • X2's avatar
    X2
    Moderator
    25 days ago

    Earlier replies about cross OS restore not being supported are correct. Veritas cannot guarantee all data and meta data of a file will be successfully restored. It is evident that a file from RHEL when restored to a Windows server will not be able to restore SELinux details, in addition to other meta-data.

    Our usual approach is to advise the client about the feature not being supported, and then  restore the file to a different server which is same as source OS from which backup was done. Then user can copy/scp/etc. which ever way they like to the destination machine. This way everyone is at least sure that the restore worked successfully.