This is possible but not exactly the way you want.
First of all, your workstation would have to be a media server under the
master.
Second, any restore you initiate must be started on the master.  As far as I
know there is no way around this because you must be able to access the NBU
catalog (so if your master is down your screwed).

CLI Restore is as follows:
bprestore -L <restore_log> -R <rename_file> -C <client> -D <destination> -s
<begin_date> -e <end_date> -f <file_list>
The gui works well for single file restores but when you need to span a
particular period of time I find the cli to be much easier.  Netbackup will
automatically grab the latest and greatest files it has within the given
time period, utilizing full and incremental backups.  See p512 of the
sysadmin guide for further details.

-Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Timothy J. Arnold [mailto:tim AT ngfl.gov DOT uk]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 3:42 AM
To: 'Cornely, David'; 'Schuller, William'; 'Veritas-bu (E-mail)'
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Restoring from an "Alternate" storage unit


On a similar topic:

I would like to set up my workstation with a DLT4 drive and netbackup so
I don't have to leave my desk when having todo a restore. silly users ;)

Is this possible? In short the ideal situation would be to be able to
put the DLT tape in the drive, run the commands on the workstation (not
on the server, incase the server was down or something) and then it will
restore to where I would like. Would I need to make my workstation a
media server?

I would also like to know how to perform a restore from the CLI, I have
been using bpadm but this is fairly slow process. 

Thanks,

Timothy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
> Cornely, David
> Sent: 06 February 2002 23:48
> To: 'Schuller, William'; Veritas-bu (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Restoring from an "Alternate" storage unit
> 
> 
> Make the following entry in the bp.conf file on your Master server:
> FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER = fromhost tohost
> "where fromhost is the server that performed the original 
> backup and tohost
> is the server to use for the restore" (p.333 of the Sysadmin 
> guide).  Then
> bounce netbackup on the master.
> 
> -Dave
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schuller, William [mailto:wschuller AT Cayenta DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 3:36 PM
> To: Veritas-bu (E-mail)
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restoring from an "Alternate" storage unit
> 
> 
> I have one master and one media server. Everything is 
> Netbackup 3.4GA. The
> master has one library attached with four drives. The media 
> server has one
> library attached with one drive.
> 
> I need to do a restore of some data that was backed up to the 
> media server.
> It is quite a bit of data and I am expecting it to take a 
> pretty good deal
> of time. I have several servers which back up data to the 
> media server every
> hour. Thus I cannot use the one drive on the media server for restore,
> blocking the hourly backups. I have removed the tapes needed 
> for the restore
> from the media server to the master server. This way I can 
> restore with one
> drive and still have three left to back up data. 
> 
> The restore kicks off fine and promptly hangs at : 
> 
> "12:46:27 (43029.001) Restoring from image created Tue 05 Feb 
> 2002 01:12:38
> AM P"
> 
> There are no pending media requests on either the master or the media
> server. The first tape required for the restore has not moved 
> from it's slot
> in the library. It has been several hours since I kicked it off.
> 
> Bill Schuller
> Cayenta, Inc.
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