bprestore any backupid as bpverify

[Ziad_Ghazaleh]

with Admin GUI -> catalog  it's possible to verify any backupid.

is there a way to restore it into filesystem at Masterserver?

[revarooo]

Yes, any backupid can be verified. Click on the image, select Verify then check the activity monitor.

> is there a way to restore it into filesystem at Masterserver?

Depends on the backup. If the Master is Windows and the backup was of a non Windows OS, then no.

If The Master is unix and the backup was of a non-unix OS again - no!

[Ziad_Ghazaleh]

and how?

the backupid is a db2 image from Unix client the master is builded in Unix.

[Marianne]

... the backupid is a db2 image ....

If backup was done with db2 agent, you can only restore to a server/client where db2 is installed.

See About an alternate restore in NetBackup for DB2 Administrator's Guide  http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC5166

[Ziad_Ghazaleh]

Hi Marianne

let db2 offside, I ask independent of any API

so I imagine that dbverify is getting the backupimage and read it  then write him to /dev/null , is there an easy way  at master to write this image into local filesystem eq.  >/myimage.

[Marianne]

No.

image id cannot be used as input to bprestore.

If you have the image id, convert the timestamp to date/time:
bpdbm -ctime <10-digit-number>

You can then use this exact date/time with -s and -e option to bprestore:

bprestore -C <source-client> -D <destination-client> -s mm/dd/yyyy HH:MM:SS -e mm/dd/yyyy  HH:MM:SS 

Lots more options to bprestore.... See http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO43687 
and http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH21196

[Ziad_Ghazaleh]

it dosnet work you need file name to initiate bprestore. bprestore work only with standard backup

I think is not possible  so nobody can duplicate image on tape back to basic disk . or?

[Marianne]

Restore and duplicate are two different issues/actions.

It is possible to duplicate tape backup to basic disk storage unit - see output of 'bpduplicate -help' for command usage.

As per my 1st reply - agent backup can only be done using the agent to a server/client that has the database installed. Database commands must be used to perform the restore. 
Detailed steps can be found in the relevant agent guide.

As per the bprestore TNs that I have posted above, bprestore can be used for Standard and MS-Windows backups as well as some agents (e.g. SharePoint).

[Ziad_Ghazaleh]

Thank you very much