[Veritas-bu] Doing a NDMP recovery on a SUN system

Andrew,

The last tape file in a NetBackup NDMP job is a copy of the NetBackup
metadata catalog.  If you backed up a single path there will be only
2 tape files - the first is the NDMP data.

The NDMP data is wrapped.  There are 2 blocks before it (1024 bytes
and 512 bytes) and 1 block after it (512 bytes).

To restore manually use the "mt" command or equivalent to skip the
first two blocks.


>From: Andrew Wilkin <Andrew.Wilkin AT ditm.nsw.gov DOT au>
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>Hi Group,
>
>I'm doing a test to enable me to restore a NetBackup NDMP Backup (Client is
>a NetApp) on a SUN system. From the reading I've done I believe this to be
>possible, as the "dump/restore" used within NDMP are compatible with Solaris
>ufsdump/ufsrestore commands.
>
>I've made a new NDMP backup to a new tape, and two files were created. The
>files on the tape where some sort of header file and the dump of the data. I
>then extracted the two files off the tape with 'dd' to a local SUN file
>system for the recovery. When I try to extract the data using 'ufsrestore' I
>get a message saying it's not a dump format. The command I'm using to try
>and do the extraction is:-
>
>dd if=file2.dat | ufsrestore tvf -
>
>where "file2.dat" is the second of the two files extracted from the tape,
>what I believe is the dump file.
>
>Any clues as to what I'm doing incorrectly? 
>
>The purpose of this test is to enable me to restore NDMP files if my NetApp
>system is down.
>
>Thanks, I shall summarise.
>
>
>Regards 
>
>Andrew Wilkin 
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