cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Backup question

nbustarter380
Level 6

If a client  we were to take an existing server being backed up by Symantec (i.e. sysmemrexa1-p.mycompany.com)…  and  they  shut it down, rename it (and change IP address), assign a new  “backup ip”  that was given to them by the netbackup admin group  and started it back up…,

for example

Old Name/IP: sysmemrexa1-p.mycompany.com/ 181.52.16.341

New Name/IP/:  vamsupapp509-c.mycompany.com / 11.190.5.45 / 11.336.9.65

If we needed a restore from the “old” backup policy name/client the following should work correct?

Activate the old backup policy that was using the previous name for backup

Edit the hosts file (on the master) server enter the new Ip address next to the old backup policy client name and perform the restore?

I realize this may be a simple thing to do however I am just making sure.

Thanks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4 REPLIES 4

Nicolai
Moderator
Moderator
Partner    VIP   

Yes there is - you give the new server permission to restore from the old server.

In Netbackup term its called altnames rights.

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO33533

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO89603

And last but no least - Netbackup administrators guide - page 1141

http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC6452

Best Regrads

Nicolai

 

nbustarter380
Level 6

Hi Nicolai,

Thank you very much for the quick response, The doc links and the Netbackup admin guides are good.

 

Btw- These are solaris servers.

Best regards

 

 

Marianne
Moderator
Moderator
Partner    VIP    Accredited Certified

Alternate Client restore from the master server can be done any time.

Select sysmemrexa1-p.mycompany.com as source client and vamsupapp509-c.mycompany.com as destination client.

Best to prepare before Client name in policy is changed. On master, do the following:

cd /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images

ln -s sysmemrexa1-p.mycompany.com vamsupapp509-c.mycompany.com 

All new catalog entries for backup of new name vamsupapp509-c.mycompany.com will be written to sysmemrexa1-p.mycompany.com folder. 

Attempts to restore can choose any of the old or new client name - it will find backups no matter which of the 2 names is used to browse for backups.

 

nbustarter380
Level 6

Thanks Marianne for your response as well  the information is very helpful.

Best Rergards