Just for fun I will throw this one out. We use NBU3.4.1 on a w2k
master/media server and of course we do the NBU db backups etc. However, I
also have BackupExec loaded on another machine and I back up the complete
NBU system every afternoon (in our case that's when it's idle). If I use the
BE tape to restore a "new" NBU box I'm done. Fini. Ready to restore.
Although you might need to import a few tapes depending on your DR plan and
offsite storage. W2K is more forgiving with this sort of operation because
of it's plug and play capabilities that allow some differences in hardware
to be accomodated. I say this this because NT4 is a royal pain if you have
ANY hardware changes. I have actually done this when I had some major
hardware changes made. Good time to consider upgrading to w2k.

David Spearman
County of Henrico

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Anderson [mailto:Ryan.Anderson AT udlp DOT com]
Sent: 13 February, 2002 08:58
To: Paul.Sobey AT aleagroup DOT com; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] DR Musings


You can avoid the headache of mass importing of tapes if you keep a
recent backup of the NetBackup db itself. It holds a record of what
tapes are needed, which tapes are the second copy, etc. With this I know
that I can:

1) Install a new backup server from scratch (using the same name of the
one that's 'gone')
2) Install NetBackup
3) Apply the most recent catalog backup
4) Do an import on *only* the tapes which were used since the catalog
backup was made (if needed)

RCA

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Unix Administrator
United Defense L.P.
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pager 952.235.9936

>>> "Paul Sobey" <Paul.Sobey AT aleagroup DOT com> 02/13/02 07:44AM >>>
Dear all,

We currently backup our servers using a full dump on weekends,
incrementals
during the week. Full dumps are duplicated and sent offsite weekly.
I'd
like to do it more frequently but I currently only have two drives, so
cloning during the week is a no-no if I want to be able to do
restores!

We have a DR test coming up, during which I will need to restore
several of
our servers from the duplicated tapes. I will be provided with a blank
server/LTO drive for NetBackup. Current plan is to do something like
this:

   Install NetBackup on blank NT Server
   Use bpimport to read duplicated tapes into catalogue
   Install NT + apps on individual servers
   Use NetBackup to restore data


I would be very interested to hear anyone's comments on this. Is it
workable? I have around 400GB to import - how long approximately to
create
the catalogue entries? How long to write the actual data back given
server
grade kit/NT4/100MB ethernet? Would it be quicker to use NetBackup to
restore the apps as well as the data?

Using NB Datacentre 3.4 on NT4.

Any advice gratefully received!



Cheers,

Paul


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