[Veritas-bu] Restore Netbackup from catastrophic failure of Master Server
I am trying to recover my NetBackup and system data (catalog db and system partitions) from my tape library. My master server (UNIX) crashed and was unrecoverable. I have reloaded Solaris and rebuilt my Partitions. I do not have the data anywhere else. (Screwed up config I know, but I didn't build it) I have been through the disaster recovery section of the manual. I cannot find my catalog tape. I cannot get NetBackup working correctly. (I am going to have to reinstall it) I need to know how to find my catalog Tape? Morgan Taylor Contractor, SMC GPS Level 1 Sustainment Schriever Air Force Base, CO 80912 719 567 3208 or 567 3242 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore Netbackup from catastrophic failure of Master Server
what is your nbu version, how many tapes you have in the library and what type of catalog you use, if you have NBU 6.x (hot or cold) ? stefanos ---Original Message--- From: Taylor,Morgan CTR USAF AFSPC SLG/GPS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restore Netbackup from catastrophic failure of Master Server Sent: Apr 17 '08 21:22 I am trying to recover my NetBackup and system data (catalog db and system partitions) from my tape library. My master server (UNIX) crashed and was unrecoverable. I have reloaded Solaris and rebuilt my Partitions. I do not have the data anywhere else. (Screwed up config I know, but I didnΆt build it) I have been through the disaster recovery section of the manual. I cannot find my catalog tape. I cannot get NetBackup working correctly. (I am going to have to reinstall it) I need to know how to find my catalog Tape? Morgan Taylor Contractor, SMC GPS Level 1 Sustainment Schriever Air Force Base, CO 80912 719 567 3208 or 567 3242 [LINK: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - [LINK: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [LINK: http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu] http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore Netbackup from catastrophic failure of Master Server
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:22:14PM -0600, Taylor, Morgan CTR USAF AFSPC SLG/GPS wrote: I am trying to recover my NetBackup and system data (catalog db and system partitions) from my tape library. My master server (UNIX) crashed and was unrecoverable. What version NBU? If you were at 6, do you know if you were doing only hot, only cold, or both types of catalog backups? I have reloaded Solaris and rebuilt my Partitions. I do not have the data anywhere else. (Screwed up config I know, but I didn't build it) I have been through the disaster recovery section of the manual. I cannot find my catalog tape. I cannot get NetBackup working correctly. (I am going to have to reinstall it) Best is to reinstall netbackup so that it is working. Especially if you have a jukebox. Once done, if you don't have a record of the catalog tapes, you'll have to search your tape collection for them. For cold catalogs, use 'bprecover -l' on all of the media until you find your most recent catalog tape. Then you can use bprecover to recover from it. If netbackup is running, you can run 'bprecover -l' in a loop. I need to know how to find my catalog Tape? Without a record, you have to search the tapes you have access to. If you haven't changed the catalog tapes lately and you're using barcodes, I'd start at the lowest numbers and work up. I've walked into a lot of sites where it was never rotated. So the catalog tapes were XXX000 and XXX001. Compare the dates and recover from the most recent one. If you're doing hot catalog backups, the procedure is different. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOShttp://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore Netbackup from catastrophic failure of Master Server
I am trying to recover my NetBackup and system data (catalog db and system partitions) from my tape library. My master server (UNIX) crashed and was unrecoverable. I have reloaded Solaris and rebuilt my Partitions. I do not have the data anywhere else. (Screwed up config I know, but I didn't build it) I have been through the disaster recovery section of the manual. I cannot find my catalog tape. I cannot get NetBackup working correctly. (I am going to have to reinstall it) I need to know how to find my catalog Tape? As others have responded, the first question is hot or cold backups. If cold, the tape format is different from normal backups, so--as others have noted, bprecover -l is one way. I prefer vmphyinv. Read the man page for it and look for the form that inventories a slot range, give it as many drives as you like for read drives, and it will load those tapes, read the labels to determine what type they are, and spit it out to your terminal. From the ones identified as DB backups, go to bprecover -l. If you did hot catalog backups in the NetBackup 6.x sense, you can phase-1 import all your tapes and look for the type 35 backups. Phase 1 is *much* faster than phase 2. Worst case, phase-1 and phase-2 import all your tapes. BT, DT, it's a pain and only need be done if no catalog backup exists. You'll have to recreate your setup, but all the data will be recoverable. You're in the right book--the DR section of the NetBackup Troubleshooting Guide. And the Commands manual, of course. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
