About altmiket

altmiket · 06-15-2022

Hey guys,I have a pretty large and ancient NetBackup 7.5 archive, which has about 20k pieces of media associated with it, and has all of our permanent archives in it.I have to restore several thousand files from this system, which span several years ...

altmiket · 06-03-2021

Hey everyone, been a while since I've had to post here ;)I have a very strange issue which is blocking our ability to restore some data.We have an old NBU 7.5.0.7 system which has been in operation for many years.This system is a VM master server, a ...

altmiket · 11-08-2017

Hi all,I'm trying to run a restore which is failing, looks to be because NetBackup is trying to mount a tape onto the master server, which doesn't have any drives attached to it.I have a 7.5 Linux master server called 'ndmpmaster' and a 7.5 Linux med...

altmiket · 09-16-2013

Hey all, We have a situation where an admin at another site expired a number of tapes, which contained primary copies of multi-copy archives. This has forced a number of secondary (copy 2, offsite) images to become the primary copy. I need to recover...

altmiket · 06-20-2012

Hey all, We have a number of backups that were run as type 'User Backup', and many more that were run as type 'User Archive'. The catalog differentiates between these two, and keeps them separated such that we have to run searches twice when look...

altmiket · 06-24-2022

Thank you David!Yes we have a lot of very large multiplexed backups, so they span a ton of tapes. And with this very high number of individual file restores we are faced with, we will end up loading literally thousands of tapes, 90% of which will n...

altmiket · 06-22-2022

So seems like this method will not work.In the attached screen shot, we can see I have selected a single file for restore, and then hit the 'preview' button, which brings up a list of all the tapes that have data from the backup image which includes ...

altmiket · 06-15-2022

Thank you David, I think I might be able to script your logic together in such a way that I send the script the path, it does the lookup to get the backup date, then feeds that into bpimagelist to get the specific tape used.I'll give that a shot and ...

altmiket · 06-07-2021

Thanks so much for the reply! Checking on this now

altmiket · 11-09-2017

Hi Marianne,the bpmmedia -movedb did the trick! our nearly 10 year old files are on their way back now ;)thanks very much!

VOX

User Statistics

User Activity

Find specific tape that contains file to be restored

NDMP restore 'Tape media server is not active'

restore attempted on server with no drives

Listing of primary images that are copy 2

Convert 'User Backup' catalog data to 'User Archive' after the fact?

Re: Find specific tape that contains file to be restored

Re: Find specific tape that contains file to be restored

Re: Find specific tape that contains file to be restored

Re: NDMP restore 'Tape media server is not active'

Re: restore attempted on server with no drives