Dave
Can you use BPRECOVER (or another tool) to bring the catalogues back from
DISK? Or if you are a Windows Master Server, could you simply copy the
folder structure BACK over the Netbackup directory once the Services are all
stopped??

Simon Weaver 
Technical Support 
Windows Domain Administrator 

EADS Astrium 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Markham [mailto:dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net] 
Sent: 09 November 2005 15:55
To: Williams, Kristopher L
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NB DB Crash - HELP!


Williams, Kristopher L wrote:

> Guys,
>
> I'm in a bit of a pickle, hoping someone can think of a way out of the
> jar. Rocky Reed if your out there - HELP!
>  
> For one of my customers, we have had a netbackup master crash and now
> the entire netbackup image and media database is gone. I know 
> everyone's first reaction is to just go ahead and recover from the db 
> backup tape. This, for one reason or another, is not an option at all. 
> I'm come to grips with the fact I will be importing in all 500 tapes 
> that were in the silo at the time of the crash, which will take forever.
>  
> My questions are:
>  
> 1. I haven't done imports on 5.0, anything to watch out for? 2. Can I 
> do multiple imports at the same time? If so, any watch outs? 3. Is 
> there ANY tool available somewhere that I can use to see which tapes 
> go to which client server? I'm pretty sure there isn't, but it's worth 
> a shot asking.  (Of course as soon as this happened a small major 
> restore request came in) 4. I know imports take a LONG time, but does 
> anyone have any real numbers to how long it takes to import a full LTO 
> tape?
>  
> This environment is all Windows. Everything is running Netbackup 5.0 
> MP5.
>  
>  
> This list has pulled through for me in the past, hoping someone has a
> smoking gun that can help me this time.
>  
>  
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Kris

I used to have to import around 8 tapes (DLT4) on DLT7000 drives for a 
Disaster recovery test. After doing both phases the clock had ticked 
past 15 hours. This was before i could do any restores.

Obviously this was too long so i now create backup copies of the 
catalogues to disk and sync them over to the DR site which has a backup 
server with the same name. In event of DR i just bprecover the 
catalogues i have transfered over the DR environment and it can then 
read the tapes which were backed up at production site. This is 
obviously no use now but may help in the future.

Why have you not got a copy of the catalogues? Are you not creating them 
or is the tape duff? May be a way to avoid having to import 500 tapes.

Dave
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