Netbackup disk based backups

[hokey71]

I have a master server in siteA and a media server in siteB. We are backing up to a SAN at each site and then replicating the 2 sites.

If there is a disaster in siteB I want to be able to restore replicated data from siteA to new servers. How would I restore the data?

I thought since the master server is in siteB with all the catalog information I should be able to create a storage unit, point it to the SAN and restore the images. This does not seem to work.

Also, in testing I created a a local folder called backup and ran a test backup to that folder. I then moved the images to another folder called backup2 and am unable to restore the file. Any ideas around this?

 

[wileywombat]

Netbackup keeps track of the media server that wrote the backup and the location of the disk images are mean't to be in the header file ( the one without the .f ) under the path ../netbackup/db/images/<client-name>/<10-digit-number>/<policy><10-digit-number>_<schedule-type>

The storage unit is not referenced for a restore.

So using your example. If your storage unit location is /backup this is recored in the header file, and if you move that to /backup2 then Netbackup will not know where to look unless you update the image header file.

If this is NB 6.0 then you can import disk images. Otherwise paths and hostnames need to match the original site for the location of the disk images.