The nature of NDMP is that the machine (celerra in this case) provides the 
backup/restore application. What Legato provides is an encapsulation and a tape 
controller. The backups are stored in legato savesets/streams but they are 
merely wrappers around the actual backup data.  Try talking to EMC cellera 
support and see what options their NDMP backup/restore application provide. 
They may have more documentation that the little that EMC/Legato provides.


On 3/24/09 7:53 PM, "Rachel Polanskis" <r.polanskis AT uws.edu DOT au> wrote:

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Fazil Saiyed wrote:

> Hello,
>> From what i gather, you are now trying to recover NDMP data to outside of
> Cellara, this is not possible, what you can do is, restore to NAS (
> Cellara) then copy over to the original server.( NDMP Data has to be
> recovered to like device)
> Are the restores to NAS working fine ? Please check DSA_SAVE_NODE=IP
> variable.


Hi,
thanks for your info.

I have no idea what DSA_SAVE_NODE=IP is or where it is supposed to be set.

So far, the restore has taken 3 days and there is 1 tape left to go,
which should be completed by this afternoon.   But initial examination
shows no data present thus far in the restore filesystem.

The backups were done to a celerra that is now retired.
The restores are being done to a celerra that has been ressurected
for the purpose with a similar configuration.    The restore is
being done from the same nsrserverhost that performed the original backup.

My question still stands - is there a way to "force" a restore no matter what?
IE to tell legato to blart out whatever is in the SSID and dump it,
regardless of data quality or missing data?   We would be happy to
just see something come back....


I will report back if we have success/failure!    I finally got a login into 
EMC PowerClunk
so I will have to log a case through there if we get no joy.....


Cheers....


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