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Re: [Networker] Restoring files made on a foreign NW server

2009-01-06 13:34:24
Subject: Re: [Networker] Restoring files made on a foreign NW server
From: Fazil Saiyed <Fazil.Saiyed AT ANIXTER DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 12:30:31 -0600 
Hi,
You can recover a folder and all files under it or a single file by 
recovering saveset and supplying file\folder path, check the recover info, 
that way you will not need the same amount of disk space as the original 
saveset.
In your environment do you have between two sites same client under two 
domains that has same name? this could be problem, you may have to 
temporarily delete or rename one before recovering other ? i am not sure 
,other  admins may have more reasonable suggestion.
One other option may be to use a separate server with temporary install of 
Networker and recovering there, if your drive is portable and have 
available servers this may be OK, especially, if you are only recovering 
this one time and don't want to mess with your production networker 
server, just make sure you do not reuse any licences or name for your 
production environment.
HTH




MIchael Leone <Michael.Leone AT PHA.PHILA DOT GOV> 
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Re: Restoring files made on a foreign NW server






> Hello,
> There could be more to this but,
> Have you tried to note down the SSID of the saveset and tried Saveset 
> recover ?

Not yet. The saveset is like 300G, and I want something like 50M worth of 
files. And I don't know specifically the file names I want, only the 
directory path they are supposed to be in. Hence I wanted to use the GUI 
to recover, so I could choose the specific files easier.

> When you re-created the client, did you give the proper name format i.e 
> FQDN, does the name resolve properly ?

Well, it's like this - the client name exists, so NW renamed the client to 

be ~clientname.  So there is no resolving that name. 

The aliases show up as:

~admin_nt8rc
~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1

I created a HOSTS file entry for "~admin_nt8rc", but that made no 
difference (to be honest, I didn't think it would).

> Have you applied proper aliases ? have  you run nsrck cmd against the 
new 
> client to check the index ?

Have not yet run nsrck or nsrim yet, no. I'm guessing I will need a "nsrck 

-L6".

> HTH
> 
> 
> 
> MIchael Leone <Michael.Leone AT PHA.PHILA DOT GOV> 
> Sent by: EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
> 01/06/2009 11:27 AM
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> Michael.Leone AT PHA.PHILA DOT GOV
> 
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> Subject
> Restoring files made on a foreign NW server
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> So I have a site that uses Networker Business Edition to back up itself, 


> and a couple other servers on that particular site. And my main site 
here 
> uses Networker Network Edition. So they are completely separate 
instances 
> of Networker. (it was originally set up this way, rather than as just a 
> storage node at a remote site, because of connectivity problems - I'm 
told 
> 
> that if the link between sites went down, then the remote site wouldn't 
> back up).
> 
> Anyway, about a month ago we changed tape formats from SDLT to LTO-3. 
Now 
> I have a need to restore from one of the old SDLT tapes. Due to a 
shortage 
> 
> of spare SDLT drives (and field personnel), I decided to import the 
files 
> into my Networker server here, and then just do a recover of the files I 


> need from here, onto the server at the remote site. I've recovered to 
> remote Business Edition servers before, but never had to import their 
> tapes before.
> 
> So I get the set of 4 tapes, and do a "scanner -m" on each tape. Then I 
do 
> 
> a "mminfo", listing fragflags, so that I can see the sequence of tapes 
> that my saveset spans. Then I do a "scanner -i", on those tapes in 
> sequence. This is the recommended method of importing tapes, AFAIK. Then 


> I create a new client, using the clientid I get from mminfo. And then I 
> try and do a GUI recover from that client, redirecting to another 
client. 
> And Networker tells me that it can't recover, as it can't find the 
index.
> 
> The saveset is named "F:\USERS", and I see it here:
> 
> C:\PHA Scripts>mminfo -v -q name="F:\USERS" -r 
> client,clientid,name,volume,savetime
>  client    client ID                       name volume           date
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 F:\users 
> NT8RC.FULL.220 11/21/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 F:\users 
> NT8RC.FULL.228 11/21/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 F:\users 
> NT8RC.FULL.231 11/21/2008
> 
> Yet, when I do a query based on the client name, I get this:
> 
> C:\PHA Scripts>mminfo -v -q client=~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
-r 
> 
> client,clientid,name,volume,savetime
>  client    client ID                       name volume           date
> 
> <snipped>
> 
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 F:\shares 
> NT8RC.FULL.228 11/21/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 F:\users 
> NT8RC.FULL.228 11/21/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 F:\shares 
> NT8RC.FULL.231 11/21/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 F:\users 
> NT8RC.FULL.231 11/21/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 bootstrap 
> NT8RC.FULL.243 11/22/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 bootstrap 
> NT8RC.FULL.243 11/24/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 bootstrap 
> NT8RC.FULL.243 11/24/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 F:\shares 
> NT8RC.FULL.243 11/21/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 
> index:~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.go
> v-1 NT8RC.FULL.243 11/22/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 
> index:~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.go
> v-1 NT8RC.FULL.243 11/24/2008
> ~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1 
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 
> index:~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.go
> v-1 NT8RC.FULL.243 11/24/2008
> 
> 
> If I look on the Business Edition server, it thinks that the clientid of 


> the server where F:\USERS is located is:
> fc159b3b-00000004-478b7799-478b7798-00010000-0a401005 (that's why I 
> created the client "~admin_nt8rc.wrk.ads.pha.phila.gov-1" with that 
> clientid).
> 
> So I'm lost and confused as to why I can't do a recover, and why it 
thinks 
> 
> there is no index.  I see the index right there, in the last 3 lines 
> above. I see the saveset, spanning across 3 of the 4 tapes, right there. 


> What I'm not seeing, is why I can't recover the specific files within 
the 
> "F:\USERS" saveset that I need ...
> 
> Advice? Clues? Free beer? :-)
> 
> -- 
> Michael Leone
> Network Administrator, ISM
> Philadelphia Housing Authority
> 2500 Jackson St
> Philadelphia, PA 19145
> Tel:  215-684-4180
> Cell: 215-252-0143
> <mailto:michael.leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>
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