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[Veritas-bu] failure of restore

2002-02-01 09:30:25
Subject: [Veritas-bu] failure of restore
From: alevin AT audible DOT com (Adam Levin)
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:30:25 -0500 (EST)
Netbackup 3.4.1, Solaris 8, Spectra Gator 64000 AIT2 library.

We had a server's root disk fail miserably yesterday.  I re-jumpstarted,
but I need to get some configuration information from the old machine.
So, I figured I'd restore the most recent full backup.  I decided to throw
the restore directly onto the media server, since it'd be fast, there's
plenty of disk space, and I could pick and choose what I wanted to
restore from the resulting list of files.

However, I'm getting this in the restore log:
09:26:51 (2477.008) Restoring from image created Sun Jan 27 00:32:11 2002
09:26:55 (2477.008) INF - Waiting for mount of media id 000167 on server
johnson.hq.audible.com.
09:27:41 (2477.007) INF - Waiting for positioning of media id 000189 on
server johnson.hq.audible.com.
09:28:49 (2477.007) INF - Beginning restore from server
johnson.hq.audible.com to client johnson.hq.audible.com.
09:28:51 (2477.007) backup id lincoln.audio.audible.com_1011504714 is not
a tar formatted image

Then, I get a bunch of "file ... not restored", and then this:
09:28:51 (2477.007) more than 10 files were not restored, logging is
supended
09:28:51 (2477.007) INF - TAR EXITING WITH STATUS = 92
09:28:51 (2477.007) INF - TAR RESTORED 0 OF 0 FILES SUCCESSFULLY
09:28:51 (2477.007) INF - TAR KEPT 0 EXISTING FILES
09:28:51 (2477.007) INF - TAR PARTIALLY RESTORED 0 FILES

Now, Netbackup *created* these backups, so how in the world could they not
be tar formatted?

Is it possible that for whatever reason, Netbackup's "User backup and
restore" is picking up a different version of tar from my path?  That's
the only thing that comes to mind, but I really can't understand why that
would happen.

Thanks,
-Adam

Adam Levin, Senior Unix Systems Administrator | http://www.audible.com/
Audible, Inc.     
Wayne, NJ, 07470        I don't think my mind has *ever* been
973-837-2797                                  pink and happy.


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