Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Recovery to a different system

2005-04-29 16:18:45
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Recovery to a different system
From: dlogcher AT MIT DOT EDU (Dan Logcher)
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:18:45 -0400
Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 01:10:48PM -0400, Dan Logcher wrote:
> 
>>Ed Wilts wrote:
>>
>>>Other people have already mentioned some approaches, but if you're using 
>>>bprestore to do your restores, check out the -D option to specify a
>>>destination client.
>>
>>That's how I've done it, command line.  But I also need to add the following
>>line to bp.conf and restart all Media and Master servers:
>>
>>FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER = source destination
>>
>>Without this, it doesn't seem to work properly.
> 
> 
> I don't have this and they've always worked for me.  I do the restores
> from the master server though and perhaps that makes a difference.

I do restores between SAN media servers, which may explain the force
option.  If done with the GUI you don't need to use this, but need to
specify from source to destination.  I just don't like using the GUI
if I don't have too.

-- 
Dan