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[Networker] Question regarding NetWorker's recovery strategy
2013-07-23 14:48:01
Hi,
I'm not sure how to phrase this question, but my experience with NW has
always been host based. In other words, if you want to recover a file
from some host from long ago, and that host no longer exists, then you
have to clown around a little bit to recover it to another current host.
In other words, having the physical tape, a drive that can read it, the
NetWorker software and knowing the ssid for the save set is not enough.
It seems there was always some mischief with having to create an NSR
client resource having that same client name and clientid in order to
recover it, maybe even to another host? Is that right? I'm not talking
about a browsable recovery. For that, I believe what I mentioned is the
case. Instead, I'm only talking about a save set recovery, so I may have
my information wrong there?
Here's my question: I want to be able to back up specific directories on
a given client, and I don't care about the client. I only care about the
directory path name, date, time and I guess the tape pool. That data
might get moved around to umpteen different machines in the future. But
as it moves around, it remains static, and hashes are used to ensure
that it has not changed. In the future, should I need to recover it, why
do I need to have any information about which client backed it up? Why
can't it be just like tar wherein the content of the tar file contains
nothing about the client that created it. Is this possible with NW? In
other words, even though NW will record the client name in the media
database, is there a way to recover the save set (save set recover, not
browsable recover) without having to know anything about the client that
backed it up (particularly in cases where the client is long gone) or
having to play any games with making NW think there's such a client or
named resource or having to know the clientid? If so, how can I do this?
If not, it seems that this would be a valuable tool or capability.
Thanks.
George
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