[Veritas-bu] Using tar to restore/display NB backups
2001-11-14 16:40:57
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[Veritas-bu] Using tar to restore/display NB backups |
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DONALDG AT tc.gc DOT ca (Donaldson, Grant) |
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Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:40:57 -0500 |
Are you using MPX'd backups? If so, then I believe that you will not be able
to read the tape with tar.
Grant
> ----------
> From: Kumar, Alok[SMTP:akumar AT refco DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 4:18 PM
> To: Veritas BU
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Using tar to restore/display NB backups
>
> We have Netbackup 3.2, master server is on WINNT and one media server is
> Solaris & other WINNT.
>
> I am trying to use tar to restore/display backups done by netbackup. I
> want
> to do it on a local tape drive not on robot drives. We want to see that if
> somehow netbackup is not working, can we restore the backups?
> I did following :
>
> 1. Inserted the tape in the drive
> 2. mt rew /dev/rmt/0n
> 3. mt stat
> 4. mt fsf /dev/rmt/0n
> 5. /netbackup/bin/tar -tvf /dev/rmt/0n
>
> Tried giving tar command repeatedly till tape reaches. But, every time it
> says that it does'nt look like a tar archive.
>
> Is there something wrong with this procedure? Please suggest what should
> be
> done.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alok Kumar
>
>
>
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