I just used the rawasm the other day although the raw partition (or volumes
in our case; /dev/vx/rdsk/rootdg/volname) were called out in a directive
at backup.   In our case then the recover of "volname" above is a simply
a file or directory off of the "/" ssid.   If your devices were listed as
client savesets then you can reference them by ssid easily.

We did a directed recover. I  created the same devices on the target client
though and did an interactive recover.

In your case I believe some have created symbolic links for the recover
with success.  One recovers the data to the exact same place on the target
client but the device names are symbolic links to the actual devices where
you want the data to go.   I'm assuming one could symlink this to file
although I haven't tried it?

A redirected recover is defitinely possible though.



Robert Maiello
Thomson Healthcare







On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 22:20:09 +0200, John Hope-Bailie
<johnhb AT SOURCECONSULTING.CO DOT ZA> wrote:

>Good-day,
>
>I need to perform raw device backup/recovery with NetWorker on Sun/Solaris.
>Currently running NW 6.1.3.  Intend to upgrade to NW 7.1.1. soon.
>
>Backups are embedded into a controlling script using the "save" command.
>By specifying the rawasm directive, and the device as the save target, a raw
>block-level backup of the device is achieved.
>
>This works fine.
>
>My question relates to recovering this data.
>I need to be able to recover this data onto another host system.
>If possible it should also be recoverable to a different device.
>(Clearly the device would have to be the same configuration as the original
>source device)
>
>I have asumed that one could use the recover command with the -S <SSID>
>option to recover this raw backup.
>
>However, it is not clear from the "recover" man page whether the -d
><destination> option can be used to redirect the recovery to another target
>device, or another host.
>
>Does anyone have practical experience with this ?
>
>Can you clarify what is or is not possible with redirected recovery of
>rawasm savesets.
>
>regards,
>
>John Hope-Bailie
>
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