[Veritas-bu] Using tar to restore/display NB backups

I am using tar that comes with netbackup, by giving full path.
FYI, we are not using multiplexing.


-----Original Message-----
From: Tim McMurphy [mailto:Tim.McMurphy AT telus DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 1:58 PM
To: Veritas BU; 'Kumar, Alok'
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Using tar to restore/display NB backups


are you using the unix tar or the gnu-modified-netbackup tar? do  a  "which
tar" and try explicitly using the one netbackup has.

-----Original Message-----
From: Donaldson, Grant [mailto:DONALDG AT tc.gc DOT ca]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 2:41 PM
To: Veritas BU; 'Kumar, Alok'
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Using tar to restore/display NB backups


Are you using MPX'd backups? If so, then I believe that you will not be able
to read the tape with tar. 
Grant


> ----------
> From:         Kumar, Alok[SMTP:akumar AT refco DOT com]
> Sent:         Wednesday, November 14, 2001 4:18 PM
> To:   Veritas BU
> Subject:      [Veritas-bu] Using tar to restore/display NB backups
> 
> We have Netbackup 3.2, master server is on WINNT and one media server is
> Solaris & other WINNT.
> 
> I am trying to use tar to restore/display backups done by netbackup. I
> want
> to do it on a local tape drive not on robot drives. We want to see that if
> somehow netbackup is not working, can we restore the backups?
> I did following :
> 
> 1. Inserted the tape in the drive
> 2. mt rew /dev/rmt/0n
> 3. mt stat
> 4. mt fsf /dev/rmt/0n
> 5. /netbackup/bin/tar -tvf /dev/rmt/0n
> 
> Tried giving tar command repeatedly till tape reaches. But, every time it
> says that it does'nt look like a tar archive.
> 
> Is there something wrong with this procedure? Please suggest what should
> be
> done.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alok Kumar
>  
> 
> 
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