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[Veritas-bu] Catalog recovery to a different Master ?

2004-03-31 08:10:23
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Catalog recovery to a different Master ?
From: paulg AT CDCNA DOT COM (Paul Gimpelev)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:10:23 -0500
Then the client will not recognize the real master and this has a potential of
getting messy.

paulg

On Mar 31,  8:05am, Barlow, Eliott wrote:
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog recovery to a different Master ?
> What if you modified the host's host file to evade the reverse lookup?
>
> Eli
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Paul
> Gimpelev
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 7:51 AM
> To: Arun K Sadaram; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Catalog recovery to a different Master ?
>
>       Probably not.  To be able to use the catalog from "Master A" you
> will
> need to at least fool the host that is "Master B" into thinking it has
> the same
> name as "Master A".  You will still not be able to run the restores from
> the
> imposter master because clients will do a reverse lookup on the IP and
> it will
> not match the name of "Master A".
>
> paulg
>
> On Mar 31,  7:58am, Arun K Sadaram wrote:
> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Catalog recovery to a different Master ?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > A quick question: I have a Solaris Master NetBackup DC4.5 being
> cataloged
> daily. We want to verify the catalog recovery and run few test restores
> using a
> different (secondary) NetBackup Master server @ some frequency. Please
> let me
> know whether or not i can recover the NetBackup catalog from one Master
> server
> to a different Master server (with a different name and I.P.address) and
> run
> the restoration to the same NB clients that are backedup using primary
> Master?
> >
> >
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated?
> >
> >
> > Kind Regards
> > -Arun
> >
> >
> > Have a great day!!
> > Win an evening with the Indian cricket captain: Yahoo! India Promos.
> >
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