Re: [Networker] Restoring files made on a foreign NW server

> Hello,
> There could be more to this but,
> Have you tried to note down the SSID of the saveset and tried Saveset 
> recover ?

Not yet. The saveset is like 300G, and I want something like 50M worth of 
files. And I don't know specifically the file names I want, only the 
directory path they are supposed to be in. Hence I wanted to use the GUI 
to recover, so I could choose the specific files easier.

> When you re-created the client, did you give the proper name format i.e 
> FQDN, does the name resolve properly ?

Well, it's like this - the client name exists, so NW renamed the client to 
be ~clientname.  So there is no resolving that name. 

The aliases show up as:

~admin_nt8rc
~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1

I created a HOSTS file entry for "~admin_nt8rc", but that made no 
difference (to be honest, I didn't think it would).

> Have you applied proper aliases ? have  you run nsrck cmd against the 
new 
> client to check the index ?

Have not yet run nsrck or nsrim yet, no. I'm guessing I will need a "nsrck 
-L6".

> HTH
> 
> 
> 
> MIchael Leone <Michael.Leone AT PHA.PHILA DOT GOV> 
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> 01/06/2009 11:27 AM
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> Subject
> Restoring files made on a foreign NW server
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> So I have a site that uses Networker Business Edition to back up itself, 

> and a couple other servers on that particular site. And my main site 
here 
> uses Networker Network Edition. So they are completely separate 
instances 
> of Networker. (it was originally set up this way, rather than as just a 
> storage node at a remote site, because of connectivity problems - I'm 
told 
> 
> that if the link between sites went down, then the remote site wouldn't 
> back up).
> 
> Anyway, about a month ago we changed tape formats from SDLT to LTO-3. 
Now 
> I have a need to restore from one of the old SDLT tapes. Due to a 
shortage 
> 
> of spare SDLT drives (and field personnel), I decided to import the 
files 
> into my Networker server here, and then just do a recover of the files I 

> need from here, onto the server at the remote site. I've recovered to 
> remote Business Edition servers before, but never had to import their 
> tapes before.
> 
> So I get the set of 4 tapes, and do a "scanner -m" on each tape. Then I 
do 
> 
> a "mminfo", listing fragflags, so that I can see the sequence of tapes 
> that my saveset spans. Then I do a "scanner -i", on those tapes in 
> sequence. This is the recommended method of importing tapes, AFAIK. Then 

> I create a new client, using the clientid I get from mminfo. And then I 
> try and do a GUI recover from that client, redirecting to another 
client. 
> And Networker tells me that it can't recover, as it can't find the 
index.
> 
> The saveset is named "F:\USERS", and I see it here:
> 
> C:\PHA Scripts>mminfo -v -q name="F:\USERS" -r 
> client,clientid,name,volume,savetime
>  client    client ID                       name volume           date
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 F:\users 
> NT8RC.FULL.220 11/21/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 F:\users 
> NT8RC.FULL.228 11/21/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 F:\users 
> NT8RC.FULL.231 11/21/2008
> 
> Yet, when I do a query based on the client name, I get this:
> 
> C:\PHA Scripts>mminfo -v -q client=~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
-r 
> 
> client,clientid,name,volume,savetime
>  client    client ID                       name volume           date
> 
> <snipped>
> 
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 F:\shares 
> NT8RC.FULL.228 11/21/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 F:\users 
> NT8RC.FULL.228 11/21/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 F:\shares 
> NT8RC.FULL.231 11/21/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 F:\users 
> NT8RC.FULL.231 11/21/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 bootstrap 
> NT8RC.FULL.243 11/22/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 bootstrap 
> NT8RC.FULL.243 11/24/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 bootstrap 
> NT8RC.FULL.243 11/24/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 F:\shares 
> NT8RC.FULL.243 11/21/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 
> index:~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.go
> v-1 NT8RC.FULL.243 11/22/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 
> index:~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.go
> v-1 NT8RC.FULL.243 11/24/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 
> index:~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.go
> v-1 NT8RC.FULL.243 11/24/2008
> 
> 
> If I look on the Business Edition server, it thinks that the clientid of 

> the server where F:\USERS is located is:
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 (that's why I 
> created the client "~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1" with that 
> clientid).
> 
> So I'm lost and confused as to why I can't do a recover, and why it 
thinks 
> 
> there is no index.  I see the index right there, in the last 3 lines 
> above. I see the saveset, spanning across 3 of the 4 tapes, right there. 

> What I'm not seeing, is why I can't recover the specific files within 
the 
> "F:\USERS" saveset that I need ...
> 
> Advice? Clues? Free beer? :-)
> 
> -- 
> Michael Leone
> Network Administrator, ISM
> Philadelphia Housing Authority
> 2500 Jackson St
> Philadelphia, PA 19145
> Tel:  215-684-4180
> Cell: 215-252-0143
> <mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>
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