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Linux Single item Restore

Maverick101
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Good day,

We recently introduced Rhel 7 servers into our environment and our backups have always been Windows based. Both master and media servers are 2016 servers running 8.1.2

Our RHEL server backups are the same as all other VM based servers backing up using a VMWare policy (single pass). We are able to restore the entire VM server without any issues. 

My question is regarding single item restores from our NBU console for our RHEL servers. Will such a restore work like it does with windows servers or do we require a Linux Media server to achieve this? 

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quebek
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Hello

It should work as for Windows based. So in first place you have to install NBU client inside this machine. Also please check this address to see if you are on supported configuration:

https://sort.veritas.com/DocPortal/pdf/NB_70_80_VE

Let me quote few things from above:

"NetBackup for VMware supports file-level recovery from a virtual machine backup
on the following guest operating systems. For the guest operating systems not listed
in this table, you can recover the entire virtual machine but not individual files"

"RHEL 7 Note: File-level recovery is supported for virtual machines that use the 32-bit
version of the ext4 file system. Support for file-level recovery of the ext4 64-bit file
system starts at NetBackup 8.0."

"ext2, ext3, ext4 Support for ext4 starts at RHEL 5.4 and SUSE 11.
LVM2 volume manager is supported. Support for file-level recovery for ext4 64-bit starts at NetBackup 8.0, for any supported version of RHEL or SUSE that supports ext4 64-bit. Note: File-level recovery is not supported for LVM
thin provisioned volumes. However, the files in an LVM thin provisioned volume are restored when you restore the full VM."