10-04-2013 09:16 AM
Hi,
We have around 8 filers and 3 media server. First 6 filers and all media servers share 12 tape drives. I tried to restore images which was done with "filer6" (this host shares drives) to "filer7" (this does not have visibility for tape drives). I entered restore overrite host on host properties. Trying restore and when restore starts it is loading tape to drive from "filer1"
If "filer6" is image owner and "filer7" is the host where restore will be written, why is netbackup using "filer1" for this restore?
Filer vendor - NetApp
NetBackup is 7.5.0.5 - Windows 2008R2
Please help to understand why it is using other filers (host) even if we have free tape drives from same filer 6. why it is using drive path from other filers for this restore?
Thanks for help
10-04-2013 10:23 AM
I entered restore overrite host on host properties
what are the entires that you put in restore overrite host?
10-04-2013 10:50 AM
You need to change the media ownership of the specific medias.
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpmedia -movedb -m <mediaid> -oldserver ndmphost1 -newserver ndmphost2 -nodb_update
10-04-2013 10:56 AM
I entered restore overrite host on host properties
what are the entires that you put in restore overrite host?.
I meant this:
Host properties> Master server> Media Host override.
10-04-2013 10:57 AM
You need to change the media ownership of the specific medias.
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpmedia -movedb -m <mediaid> -oldserver ndmphost1 -newserver ndmphost2 -nodb_update
I don`t need to change media owner. Owner still active and it has drive attached. it can see drives and can load tape and start reading it.
Restore is working, but not understanding why it is using totally different filer to load tape and read.
10-04-2013 10:59 AM
What is the configuration you put in BAR - Specify Netbackup Machines and policy....
How Media Server is the NDMP host?
10-04-2013 11:13 AM
What is the configuration you put in BAR - Specify Netbackup Machines and policy....
In BAR i put source client for restore: "Filer6" and Destination client for restore: "Filer7"
H
ow Media Server is the NDMP host? We are not using any media server for this restore. i just mentioned that they share drives as well. it was informational. They are not part of restore.
Restore Source: filer6
Restore Destination: filer7
Tape drive loaded to: filer1
Question is Why it is loaded to filer1. it can load it to filer6 as it is media owner
10-04-2013 11:35 AM
How you want restore files without a Media Server?
Its not possible. You have to check who is your NDMP host, maybe is the filer1 , the source client does not mean that this is your host used for restore this files, only the server on which you will restore the data from and search for files.
So the media use for restore is set in the same window, in Specify Netbackup Machine..., is the first select.
10-04-2013 11:48 AM
If tape library attached directly (actuallt san zoning) why do you need media server. it is direct NDMP not remote NDMP. i can turn off my media servers and do backups and restores. Please forget about media servers for now
NetBackup tries always as per my knowledge to use drives attached to media owner. In my case media owner is filer6. it is not media server. So it has to use filer 6 tape drive. because this guy (filer6) is the owner.
10-05-2013 05:14 AM
You REALLY need to change media ownership:
See this TN: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH68059
Need to re-direct NDMP restore through an alternate media server
Extract:
10-11-2013 03:26 PM
Marianne, but it is actually not using media owner who did the backup. this is my problem. Owner of tape who did backup is filer 6. But while running restore it is chosing filer1 to load tape. Filer 6 is up and working which has more number of tape drives than filer1.
10-12-2013 11:44 PM
Are you using open storage ? This TN is for 6.5 http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH87200 but I had seen this same behaviour in 7.1, not sure about 7.5.
10-16-2013 08:53 AM
If he's using tape drives, the OST info would not pertain directly. However, the principle is similar.
With a restore, it starts at the media server. With this many drives shared among that many hosts, you are highly likely to end up with a 3-way restore (filer 1 restoring to filer 7).
What it will try to do is go by last host to read the media. You can determine this by running nbemmcmd -listmedia.
But the only way to make this not happen is to either use restore host override or move the media as mentioned earlier.