Re: [Networker] AW: [Networker] Saveset Recovery from Include files

Hi,

Thanks for responding to assist.

Let me just clarify my setup here.

I have a large TeraByte File which is backed regulary and indexes for those
saves are as we know kept on disk on the backup server. ( The index for
these
files on disk are approx 12 Gb).

As part of my org's DR readiness, i am suppose to backup these indexes from
the original backup server onto a seperate tape pool and ship them
off.Since the
tapes wont be local,i dont bother to generate this particular saves
indexes again!.

As i mentioned earlier, the backup of this index is ok as seen from
mminfo and other
completion logs.

However on the remote site, when i attempt to recover these index files
to either thier
orginal location i.e. /nsr/index/nas-aus-dg1,/nsr/index/nas-aus-dg2 etc
). The indexes
are not recovered, only the orginal include file (
/nsr/res/include_file) is restored.

Anyway, all throughout the time the system status shows , the loading of
tapes, startring read
of 12 GB  from tape XYZ and reaches the end of reading and in the end
just recovers the
/nsr/res/include_file and no other data.

Could you please share with me how you were able to be successful on
your end. i.e
just let me preview the nsradmin output of the test client setup.


Rgds,

Monit

Hrvoje Crvelin wrote:

I'm araid I do not understand your problem.  When you run
"save -I file_with_include_list" from command line you will
backup only files/directories listed there.  Just did that for
a test and in my case it said 188Mb were saved.  That's
exactly how big it is what I wanted to be saved/listed.

Next, the index for such save has to be generated.

Now, if I understand correctly, your target to be saved
were index files, right?  OK, now I tried that too.  I can
see it in my index (nsrinfo output is LIFO typo).

When I do mminfo -av -r ssid,name I can see name to be
what I listed to be backed up include_file (in my case one
index directory).

recover run in a way you described runs as well and and I
can see file restored to -d destination point as expected.

I do not understand what you mean by "However when i
attempt to recover this data ( with saveset recovery).The GUI
shows the progress of the read till 12 GB however only the
include file is restored in its original location and the actual data
is nevere restored."  Could you describe this please?

Cheers,
.c



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      Von: Monit Kapoor [mailto:mkapoor AT CADENCE DOT COM]
      Gesendet: Di 18.11.2003 15:40
      An: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
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      Betreff: [Networker] Saveset Recovery from Include files



      Hi All,

      I am atempting a saveset recovery of a client for which i had
      backed approx 12 GB of index data from directories mentioned in the
      Include file.

      The backup command used was  "save -i -I /nsr/res/include_file".This
      backup is
      of index files of any important file server and needs to be restored at
      an alternate location.
      The mminfo shows i sucessfully backed the 12 GB data.No indexes were
      generated for this
      save.

      However when i attempt to recover this data ( with saveset recovery).The 
GUI
      shows the progress of the read till 12 GB however only the include file
      is restored
      in its original location and the actual data is nevere restored.

      I used the following command on the backup server for restore:

      #recover -f -d /tmp -S <ssid of org backup>

      I even tried to run a scanner to see if that would be able to build the
      online indexes
      and probably show the original files.But the scanner goes bersek
      throwing junk characters
      in between the scan.

      Any insights as to why this recovery is not able to restore the files
      within the include files ?

      Rgds,

      Monit

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