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

2002-10-16 13:07:06
Subject: [Veritas-bu] read data on netbackup tapes, without netbackup
From: david AT datastaff DOT com (David A. Chapa)
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:07:06 -0400
If you already have the new server installed with the software.  You can mount 
that catalog backup tape in a drive that is attached to the new server 
(hopefully the new server is the same name as the old) and from 

/usr/open/netbackup/bin/admincmd

you can run

bprecover -tpath /dev/rmt/BLAH -l

This will list what is on the tape first of all.  Since you probably need 
everything, you will probably just need to recover it all.

Follow Chapter 5 in the Troubleshooting Guide to recover everything you need.

David

Quoting Suzanne Palmer <s.palmer AT umassp DOT edu>:

> 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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