Was the 5.1 server a media server connceted to the 6.0 master?
Or did you somehow "upgrade" to 6.0 and change the server name in the
process (this is NOT good....)

Paul

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> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of bnetra
> Sent: December 30, 2007 6:02 AM
> To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restore failure (NetBackup 6.0 Windows)
> 
> 
> 
> While trying to restore data from media backed-up through 
> NetBackup 5.1 from backup server NetBackup 6.0 I was 
> initially getting error "cannot connect on socket(25)". By 
> adding server the 5.1 server in the current 6.0 server as 
> additional backup server I am able to connect now. However, 
> the restore is not working. 
> 
> I am trying to restore from a tape backed-up through 
> NetBackup 5.1 and restore it through NetBackup 6.0 client. 
> The restore is to another 5.1 client. Even after 4 hours the 
> job is still 'Active' and it does not give any error. It only 
> says mounting A00354 and connected; connect time: 00:00:04. 
> No restore is happening. I have put all the tapes (6 in all) 
> as pointed out by restore. In the 'Device Monitor' (Windows 
> GUI) it shows as 1 Pending Request.
> 
> The clients and server are all Windows-based.
> 
> My questions are:
> 
> 1) Can we restore NetBackup 5.1 backed-up data through 
> NetBackup 6.0 client and server? Was my adding the old backup 
> server (as done above) correct?
> 2) How to monitor and know the status of a restore? Specially 
> when restore is from 6 tapes and takes longer time.
> 
> Would appreciate a solution to the above problem. Thanks in advance.
> 
> BNetra
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