10-10-2008 08:47 AM
Testing disaster recovery for our old NB5.1 install.
Built a netbackup server and restored the catalog. Everything's there and restorable.
In the GUI, the "Destination Client" tab cannot be selected.
10-10-2008 09:30 AM
Can you "Edit the client list" and manually enter one?
10-10-2008 08:53 PM
DOCUMENTATION: Possible reasons why the Destination Client tab is grayed out in the NetBackup Java Administration GUI
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/241668.htm
10-11-2008 01:24 AM
Hi,
If you are either doing a redirected restore (source and destination are different) or you backed up a cluster, then you will need to create the touch file on Master Server to allow the redirected restore from the client to work.
Touch file to create is either No.Restrictions or client hostname (without any file extension)
location = <install_path>\Veritas\NetBackup\db\altnames for Windows or
/usr/openv/netbackup/db/altnames for Unix
If altnames directory does not exist please create this, then create the appropriate touch file
No.Restrictions is case sensitive, this allows all clients to do a redirected restore
clientname touch file will allow just that client to do the redirected restore
In addition to this, you may need to add the destination client to the server list from the Backup Archive and Restore, specify NetBackup Machines and Policy Type > Edit Server List
What this does is add the client to the 'additional servers that can access this server' in the Client Host Properties Server list.
Hope this helps
Gary Yeardley (NetBackup Database Support Engineer)
10-11-2008 08:33 AM
10-28-2008 05:53 AM
It turns out to be a DNS issue.
I was using the Java GUI remotely, via the server's IP address because it's not in DNS yet. There is another netbackup server by the same name already on the network.
Once I switched to the jnbSA GUI displayed remotely from the server, everything was fine.