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Re: [Networker] VCB & Networker

2009-10-22 17:58:28
Subject: Re: [Networker] VCB & Networker
From: Chester Martin <cmartin AT SPP DOT ORG>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:54:13 -0500
I'm not sure if it's the same way in 7.4, but with 7.5.1 if you do a
file level backup (with vcb) and want to restore you will have to choose
"save set recover" instead of the traditional recover.  When I tried to
do a traditional recover I saw the indexes and chose the file to restore
but I got a "failed to run directed recover.." error message.  In the
remote access field of the client I have *@* and it still failed.

When I chose the "save set recover" I chose the "ALLVMFS" (ALLVMFS is
how you do a vcb file level backup of windows, ALLVMFS doesn't support
linux).  Unfortunately you have to know the path you want to restore,
and type it in the field after hitting the "Files" button.  After you
click ok, it will restore your files.
  

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of James Pratt
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:25 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] VCB & Networker

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
On
>> Behalf Of jsiano
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:01 AM
>> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>> Subject: [Networker] VCB & Networker
>> 
>> Hello
>> 
>> How does one do a single file restore with VCB and Networker 7.4+?
>> 
>> I'm doing this way thus far:
>> Restore the VMDKs to an area with enough disk space (all of its 2 gig
chucks).  Use
>> the standalone converter to re-chunk it to a working object within
the
>> Vcenter/VMWARE enviroment.   This could take many hours depending on
the
>> instance.  Startup the restored machine while the real one is temp
shutdown. copy
>> off what you need and then put everything back to normal.
>> 
>> This doesn't seem the best way.
>> 

No it is not ideal, but it is much better than nothing - 7.5.1 has
"built-in" recovery for full-image VCB restores, but it doesn't work so
well for us so we usually do it the aforementioned way.

The only difference is that we bring up the second restored VM instance
on a separate ESX VLAN/network, so we don't have service interruptions
for a simple file-restore.


>> i can just have a client resource and client placed on the machine
and back it up
>> normally.  However, is there a better more efficient way so that i
can just use VCB
>> for single file AND quick and dirty BMR via restored VMDK image?
>> 

I would say the answer is no, not really - at least not within one
Networker Job, as you cannot do image and file-level at the same
time/same NW job.

What we do here is have two separate client setups for the same server -
one does a vcb monthly image (DR for us), and the other job does
daily/weekly filesystem-level backups - although you can use VCB for
file-level backups, we use the traditional backup method instead.

hth!,
Regards,
James


>> thanks.
>> 
>>
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