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[Veritas-bu] read data on netbackup tapes, without netbackup

2002-10-16 12:10:05
Subject: [Veritas-bu] read data on netbackup tapes, without netbackup
From: s.palmer AT umassp DOT edu (Suzanne Palmer)
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:10:05 -0400
Howdy all! I have a bit of a situation and was hoping for some expert
advice.

Somebody* accidently fried the root partition of my netbackup server,
so now it won't boot. For various reasons I won't get into, the
problem will not be resolved any time soon.

I was already in the process of building a new netbackup server, with
the intention of transitioning my backups off the old server (because
I was feeling paranoid that somebody* was gonna break it one of these
days. Which they did, but I wish I'd had a week or two of warning
first...), so I have that available. Both run (or ran) Datacenter 3.4
on sparc Solaris (old: 2.6, new: 8)

So... I have the catalog from the old server backed up onto DLT tapes,
and I have all my backups. Is there a way I can import the catalog
info from the old dead server onto my new, nobody-but-me-has-root
server? Can I import my existing volumes (and their data) intact?

Alternately, is there a utility I can use to manually wade through the
DLTs themselves for whatever I might need?

Thanks!

-Suzanne

*same somebodies.