[Veritas-bu] Reading a tape manually through NDMP

So this volume has NO NetBackup label on it?  That surprises me.

At 08:16 AM 12/19/00 -0800, Chris Graves wrote:
>Steve,
>
>We have essentially the same setup and have read backup tapes created
>on the NetApp using NDMP manually using the following two methods:
>
>1) Veritas via NDMP just uses the NetApp "dump" command to creat the
>backups.  This format is compatible with ufsdump, thus the tape can be
>read on a Solaris system using ufsrestore (though some information may
>be lost if using NT ACL's).
>
>2) the following is cut and paste from my notes. empress is the Sun
>where Veritas is installed and odin is the NetApp...
>
>to restore files on odin without the aid of netbackup:
>
>from empress, have a tape mounted:
>tpreq -ev def100 -p odin-vol0-full /tmp/tp
>
>now do look at /tmp/tp to find out what tape drive has the tape
>cat /tmp/tp
>odin /ndmp/nrst0a
>
>from odin, we can manipulate the tape using mt:
>mt -f nrst0a status
>
>cd to the directory where you want files restored to
>
>to list dumpfile contents:
>restore tf nrst0a
>
>to restore the files:
>restore xf nrst0a ./dir/path
>
>when finished, unload tape:
>tpunmount /tmp/tp
>
>Chris Graves
>Raytheon
>
>
>Steve Moccio writes:
>  > Hello all,
>  >
>  > I am in a situation where I need to try to grab a directory from a backup
>  > tape that is no longer in the database. The tape itself is marked 
> available
>  > but hasn't been over written yet. We have a Sun E3000 with the Storedge
>  > L11000 Jukebox. One of the DLT tape drives is connected to a NetApp F740
>  > using the NDMP protocol. Has anyone tried this? Robtest and veritas 
> software
>  > can see the drive through the netapp but commands like
>  > dump,restore,mt,etc.... can not.
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  >  Steve Moccio
>  >
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