[Veritas-bu] restoring from a disk based backup

Paul-

You are correct, it is not possible to "import" a disk image.  But 
what you are proposing is absolutely possible, because you're not 
really doing an import.

Consider the definition of an import as the reconstruction of the 
NetBackup database entries for some piece(s) of backup media.  If the 
media in question happens to be a tape, then there are three 
databases to reconstruct:  imageDB, volDB, and mediaDB.  If the media 
is a disk image, then only the imageDB is relevant.

In your case, you not only have the tar file on disk, you still have 
the imageDB entries for that backup image.  That makes the process 
trivial, and all that you need to do is...

1. copy the disk image using your external USB hard drive,
2. copy the relevant subdirectory of the imageDB, also using your USB 
hard drive.  (e.g. C:\Program 
Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\db\images\<hostname>\<datestamp>\)

Put both of the above items onto your test master server (taking care 
to put them in the same places they existed on the production 
master...) and you should be able to restore from that backup with no 
troubles.

HTH
rob


At 6:22 PM -0500 11/1/04, Paul Greene wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We need to create a domain controller in a test environment that 
>exactly mirrors a production domain controller. We're using 
>Netbackup and backing up to a disk array. There is a tape drive on 
>the production environment, but not on the test environment. The 2 
>networks have no connectivity between them.
>
>I was going to transfer a disk image from the production domain 
>controller to the test environment through the use of an external 
>USB hard drive, and then import the image on the test Netbackup 
>server. However, it appears from the Netbackup documentation that 
>you cannot import from a disk based image.
>
>Does anyone know of any workarounds?
>
>The specs are:
>
>Windows 2000 Server
>Netbackup Server 5.0 MP2
>
>PG
>
>
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