Hi all,

We are using Veritas Netbackup Datacentre 3.4.

We just had a situation where one of our engineers tried to recover the root 
slice of a Solaris client machine.

The client?s root file system was intact but in a moment of panic the 
engineer tried to roll back to the previous night?s full backup and restore 
the entire root file system on the client.

The restore was initiated from our master server and directed to the 
original location on the Solaris client, that being everything under / was 
to be restored to its original question.

The client only had one system disk as it was a staging server.

The restore failed when Netbackup tried to restore a library file 
libc_psr.so.1, and from then on Netbackup kept repeating messages failed to 
restore fie.

My feeling is that Netbackup tried to overwrite a system file that was being 
used by the operating system and put the system into a spin.

I have read the troubleshooting guide and the only way that is mentioned to 
recover a root file system is to rebuild the o/s on an alternate disk, boot 
off this alternate disk, recover Netbackup databases on the alternate disk, 
and then restore files to the original disk.

This recovery system makes sense.

My question is, is there a way of recovering a root file system without 
causing complications if you only have one disk available and you cannot 
build an operating system on an alternate disk??

Is this a supported method??

Should we be looking at system images in this instance?

We are not using Veritas Bare Metal Restore.

Cheers,

Nick

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