We have two netapps, which are backed up as a mapped drive through a 
relatively fast windows host (xeon) over gigabit. 

I did a test restore of the whole thing, and discovered similar issues.  
The restore took as long as the backup, and we got all the files back.  
The error logs reported some very odd errors that I've never seen 
before, but the file actually made it back to disk.  We used an 
alternate disk as a target, because the netapps were still in 
production.  We rely heavily on the netapp snapshots for quick recovery, 
and use the tape backup as an archive method, and for users who realize 
they need a file from a long time ago.  I opened a support ticket with 
Veritas regarding the error during restore, and they  told me that 
alternate path restores from a mapped drive backup of a netapp would 
produce this error.  Since all the data came back, I'm satisfied with 
the results.  We also manage user data recovery from these boxes by 
setting expectations low.  Then when we do find the file they need, we 
look like super heroes.  NDMP is not an option for us due to expense.

I use a bpstart.cmd script to ensure the drive is mapped for backups.  
As for restores, we have a profile setup for the netbackup user which 
maintains mapped drives.  It's somewhat klunky, but that's all we have.  
It works about 95% of the time.  Typically, a restore is for one file, 
or one directory, which we put on a locally attached disk, then an admin 
copies it to the real destination and assigns permissions.  Until NDMP 
is free, or a better way is invented... that's how we do it.

-Jon

> Hi
>
> Be sure to have the Netbackup services start with an account that has 
> permission to use the shares. The system account won't do.
>
> -- 
> Jon D. Benson
> Network Systems Administrator
> Neurome, Inc.
>
>
> Marvin Blackburn wrote:
>
>> We have a volume, cifs attached to an NT server.
>> We use NBU 3.4_3 to back this up as a networked drive.  (MASTER is hpux
>> 11.0).
>> We are having problems during the recovery process.  Shares are lost 
>> (cannot
>> map them) and we get errors on
>> creating the folders -- even though the get created with the appropriate
>> permissions.
>>
>> Does anyone have a "cookbook" or suggestions on setting something 
>> like this
>> up correctly.
>>
>> ------------------
>> Marvin Blackburn
>> Systems Administrator
>> Glen Raven
>> "He's no failure.  He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George
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