If I understand you right, I think this is not a big deal ( at least not on
Unixes ).
If you just want to restore filesystems do the following :
Just identify your Client Node B as Node A to *SM ( masquerade as A) and
you can access and restore all data backed up from original node A to any
location you want on real node B.
If you are talking about information stored on "raw" disks, as databases
often do you also have to identify as node A to do a restore, but usually
this is not done within the nativ *SM client. You have to change the
settings of your special Backup-SW ( e.g. TDP for Oracle )

herfried





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Subject:  Recovery of a mounted disk


Hello everybody,

I'm wondering if the following situation is possible. You have two systems
A and B with the same OS (HP-UX 11.0 to be more specific). Suppose that
system A crashes and than I mount a disk D (with a bunch of data) of the
crashed system A on to the system B. So far so good.  Is it now possible at
all to recover data (previously backed up  on disk D mounted on system A)
to the disk D mounted on system B?  I guess you have to somehow rearrange
information stored in the dbase of *SM.
Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Kurt Beyers

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