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EMC NDMP Restore file to another location Netapp/Windows

barakdmax
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Hi,

I have Netbackup 8.1.2 and i have a poilcies that i backuped emc(NDMP), our emc going to be poweroff and i need to able to restore the old backup data.

There is a away to restore emc(ndmp) to another location like Netapp(Also ndmp) or windows os ? 

The Netapp give me a error that he dosent support tar.

Your assistant

Thanks !

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Nicolai
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hi @barakdmax 

You cannot restore a EMC to a Netapp for that case onto any other vendors device. 

NDMP is not a data format, it is more a control protocol. Each vendor has it own NDMP data stream format. 

My recommendation is to keep the EMC around until all backup has expired.

Best Regards
Nicolai

 

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Nicolai
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hi @barakdmax 

You cannot restore a EMC to a Netapp for that case onto any other vendors device. 

NDMP is not a data format, it is more a control protocol. Each vendor has it own NDMP data stream format. 

My recommendation is to keep the EMC around until all backup has expired.

Best Regards
Nicolai

 

Marianne
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@barakdmax 

Unfortunately not possible. You can only restore back to the same NDMP vendor type. 
This is due to differences in the NDMP protocol deployed by the various NAS/NDMP vendors.

See NBU for NDMP manual:

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/doc/24427212-127304472-0/id-SF940141104-127304472

The destination host must be an NDMP host compatible with the data format of the source. (The source and destination must be of the same NAS vendor type.)

My suggestion : 

Perform a Windows-type backup of CIFS path before the filer is powered off. 
See this TN: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100023548

Your other option is to look for EMC simulator. 

First thanks !

I have another question

If i change the name for the Emc (NDMP) and i cant restore any more from the old backup.

There are any solution for that ? 

Marianne
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Where are the tape drives connected to? To the NDMP host or regular media server? 

You will need to configure connection to the new name as if it's a new NDMP client. 

Once you have done that, run a small test backup to confirm that all is good. 

You should then be able to do an alternate client restore. 
Select the original name as Source Client and the new name as Destination. 

If the NDMP host's tape drives were used, there are additional steps to redirect to the new name. 

when i try to restore from my internal disk storage i got an error

1: (10) allocation failed
"Error nbjm (pid=6328) NBU status: 2108, EMM status: Requested NDMP machine does not have credentials or is not configured in NetBackup"

Beacuse the name changeing, there is a posibale to restore files/folders ? 

Marianne
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@barakdmax 

Have you read my previous post? 

Yes i do,

I have two backup that i perform:

1. Local storage.

2.Tape - are connected directly to the master server.

I ask about option 1, i perform a backup after that we change the emc name to another.

When i want to perform restore i got the error from the previous post.

Marianne
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Master server storage is good - nothing needed to change there. 

The rest as per my previous post: 

You will need to configure connection to the new name as if it's a new NDMP client. 
(i.e. add credentials, test connectivity and credentials, add policy)

Once you have done that, run a small test backup to confirm that all is good. 

You should then be able to do an alternate client restore. 
Select the original name as Source Client and the new name as Destination. 

thanks!

I got now another thing:

"Permission denied to restore on Root fs"

I think something with the / are not rigth

im try to restore with a vaild path liek that 

/emc/restore/

Marianne
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So, is /emc/restore/ a folder on the root volume or a data volume? 

Be sure to select a data volume.

it is a Data volume

I thing its was in the past when i try to restore a file and issue was in the slash 

/emc/restore or should to be \emc/restore

Marianne
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Not possible. 

NAS filers have a Unix-based filesystem with only '/' in the paths. 
You cannot mix / and \ on a Unix filesystem. 

As a matter of interest - which EMC hardware? 
Isilon or Celerra? 

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Having moved from EMC Celerra to Isilon - which also cannot restore, you are stuck. 

If you need to keep the data, what I did was mount them NFS and run an NFS backup. Takes longer. But can restore anywhere.

Since you are on windows, you will have to CIFS them.

Your old backups can be expired, since you cannot restore them...

 

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@barakdmax 

Could you please give us an update on the situation? 

Your 1st question was about restoring to another type of filer or to Windows.
Then you asked about restoring to a renamed EMC filer. 
Last update was a failed restore attempt because the filer believed that you had insufficient permission to restore to a root volume. 

Please give us an update?