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

2002-10-16 12:39:12
Subject: [Veritas-bu] read data on netbackup tapes, without netbackup
From: ebarlow AT usatoday DOT com (Barlow, Eliott)
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:39:12 -0400
Suzanne,
This has happened to me in a NT environment so I feel your pain.  This was an 
easy fix, using the "bprecover" command.  You might want to verify the UNIX 
switches for this command.
 
Eli

        -----Original Message----- 
        From: Suzanne Palmer [mailto:s.palmer AT umassp DOT edu] 
        Sent: Wed 10/16/2002 12:10 PM 
        To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
        Cc: 
        Subject: [Veritas-bu] read data on netbackup tapes, without netbackup
        
        

        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.
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