Netbackup Linux Bare Metal Restore using Open Source "Relax and Recover" (ReaR)
Just wanted to update NetBackup users about a open source tool that I have been using to successfully do bare metal Linux restores using our Netbackup. We use netbackup6.5 to backup our Linux and AIX servers.On our AIX servers we use a NIM server and we do network sysback backups on a weekly basis to provide the "Bare Metal" backup functionality. Unfortunately we had not Bare Metal restore functionality for Netbackup. I found a Open Source tool called "Relax and Recover" that provided a way to restore the OS using the full backups of the Linux systems on NetBackup. The tool as an option where it will create a bootable rescue iso file that contains all the Netbackup client executables and configuration to allow you to boot up your Linux server using the iso file then issue a simple command that will mount your OS disks separately and do a bprestore of all needed files to your actual OS disks. At the end of the restore the system re-create the GRUB information on the boot disk. The "mkerscue" is process can be ran any time with the Linux system is up and I just store that iso file on a separate server. The Netbackup code on the "Relax and Recover" was lacking some functionality that I wanted. Working with the developers they have accepted enhancements I made to the Netbackup (NBU) code. I added the functionality of excluding files and/or volume groups in the restore. I wanted this because I want to mainly use this to restore the OS only. I also added the functionality to restore from a point in time. They accepted the changes in SVN trunk 250. It will probably be in the next release of the product which should come out in one month's time. The web site for the product is: http://rear.sourceforge.net. They have a very useful program that has a very active supportive user base. The developers were very responsive and helpful to me to get the enhancements to the Netbackup interface in place. The program itself is just a big collection of bash shell scripts. This made adding the enhancements "doable' for a UNIX administrator such as myself. It is nice to be able to do a bare metal restoreto ourNetbackup backed up Linux servers without the need to do some type of clonzilla, "ghost" type backup which requires a system downtime..
NDMP Restore operation getting failed while restoring at original location
Hi , Currently I am using netbackup 7.5 version . My problem is that , I took backup successfully but when I use option (restore to its orginal location ) in restore then my restore opration fails. 08/13/2013 03:49:50 - begin Restore 08/13/2013 03:49:50 - restoring from image 10.1.41.11_1376390734 08/13/2013 03:50:05 - Info bprd (pid=16219) Restoring from copy 1 of image created Tue Aug 13 03:45:34 2013 08/13/2013 03:50:06 - Info bpbrm (pid=16237) 10.1.41.11 is the host to restore to 08/13/2013 03:50:06 - Info bpbrm (pid=16237) reading file list from client 08/13/2013 03:50:06 - connecting 08/13/2013 03:50:06 - Info bpbrm (pid=16237) starting bptm 08/13/2013 03:50:06 - Info ndmpagent (pid=16243) Restore started 08/13/2013 03:50:06 - connected; connect time: 0:00:00 08/13/2013 03:50:06 - Info bpbrm (pid=16237) bptm pid: 16244 08/13/2013 03:50:06 - Info bptm (pid=16244) start 08/13/2013 03:50:06 - started process bptm (pid=16244) 08/13/2013 03:50:06 - Info bpdm (pid=16244) reading backup image 08/13/2013 03:50:07 - begin reading 08/13/2013 03:50:07 - Info ndmpagent (pid=16243) INF - Restoring NDMP files from /rb1 08/13/2013 03:50:07 - Info ndmpagent (pid=16243) Attempting normal restore. 08/13/2013 03:50:07 - Critical bpbrm (pid=16237) unexpected termination of client 10.1.41.11 08/13/2013 03:50:07 - Info bptm (pid=16244) EXITING with status 5 <---------- 08/13/2013 03:50:08 - Info ndmpagent (pid=16243) done. status: 5: the restore failed to recover the requested files 08/13/2013 03:50:08 - Error bpbrm (pid=16237) client restore EXIT STATUS 5: the restore failed to recover the requested files 08/13/2013 03:50:08 - restored from image 10.1.41.11_1376390734; restore time: 0:00:18 08/13/2013 03:50:08 - end Restore; elapsed time 0:00:18 NDMP policy restore error (2813) -bash-3.2$ ls /panfs/REALM41/restore/ -bash-3.2$ it's perfectly works when I restore it other location . I need help on this. Thanks in Advance , H