09-07-2015 05:41 PM
We are running Netbackup 7.6.1.2 on windows 2008 server.
There's a windows-nt backup, the data is backup to three tapes. No stream.
Now we found the first tape is expired and re-used, try to import the tape catalog, but it seems the fragement 1 is already gone.
Is it possible to restore the data on the rest two tapes back without the first one?
Thanks.
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09-08-2015 12:11 AM
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09-08-2015 02:06 AM
It is probably possible with nt_ttu and netbackup tar, but reading tapes directly with tar is a lot work.
So I would ask the requester if he/she could uses a newer version of the files.
If you you go ahead with reading the tapes directly the ignore errors option is usefull, -I if remember correct from when I did on a Unix system many years ago.
09-09-2015 07:46 PM
Thanks Miahael, we just want to get the files on the rest two tapes back, not care of the file version.
Is there any more reference that i could refer to for your nt_ttu & netbackup tar?
And you said 'If you you go ahead with reading the tapes directly the ignore errors option is usefull, -I if remember correct from when I did on a Unix system many years ago.'
May i know this is in the nt_ttu you mantioned above?
09-09-2015 11:07 PM
The ignore errors -I option was on netbackup tar.
Havn't really used nt_ttu, so can help you the options there.
If you don't care about file version, why not just restore them from valid backup ?
09-10-2015 06:22 PM
Oh, sorry, did not catch you meaning. We'd like to have the data on the two tapes because in that time period we only this copy of data.
Could you tell me more detail about the netbackup tar? how to use it? Working for windows system?
Thanks.
09-11-2015 12:32 AM
Seems you are out of luck.
Extract from NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume II :
(Under this topic: About reading backup images with tar)
You cannot use the NetBackup modified-GNU tar or tar32.exe to extract files from a NetBackup for Windows backup image.