Surprisingly if its possible i'd recommend the gui. I normaslly do most
things command line but from what i understand if you picked the
files/volumes you want on the gui Netbackup will only show you the
latest revision of that file it knows about.
Hence any file done on a full backup overwritten by a cumulative and
even subsequent diff inc will be shown. This means selecting it will
select the latest images the file was successfully backed up on.
Hope that makes sense.
I'd then guess that if the gui behaves in this way, by putting the date
range to bprestore it would too. You could run a bpduplicate command
without doing the duplicate to see what media would be needed? You could
then back track using bpimagelist if its picked the correct tapes?
D
Donaldson, Mark wrote:
> I've got a set of policies that follow a pattern of:
> Monthly -> Full
> Weekly -> Cumulative Incremental
> Daily -> Differential Incremental
>
> If it's been 20 days from the last full, then what I need is the full
> backup from 20 days ago, then a big skip to the previous cumulative &
> the incrementals from just that cumulative.
>
> If I define a 20 day restore range in my command, though, I'm not sure
> that Netbackup isn't restoring *all* backups including the unneeded ones
> between the full and the latest cumulative.
>
> Make sense?
>
> An example, my images for one filesystem:
>
> 12/05/2008 10:26:45 Monthly /vol/fs03/
> 12/06/2008 19:46:11 Incr /vol/fs03/
> 12/07/2008 20:07:50 Incr /vol/fs03/
> 12/08/2008 18:35:59 Incr /vol/fs03/
> 12/09/2008 15:45:30 Incr /vol/fs03/
> 12/10/2008 16:06:20 Incr /vol/fs03/
> 12/11/2008 12:57:15 Incr /vol/fs03/
> 12/12/2008 13:27:55 Cumu /vol/fs03/
> 12/13/2008 18:52:48 Incr /vol/fs03/
> 12/14/2008 18:44:20 Incr /vol/fs03/
> 12/15/2008 16:26:47 Incr /vol/fs03/
> 12/16/2008 15:39:36 Incr /vol/fs03/
> 12/17/2008 15:23:43 Incr /vol/fs03/
> 12/18/2008 10:27:52 Incr /vol/fs03/
> 12/19/2008 10:14:00 Cumu /vol/fs03/
> 12/20/2008 13:41:58 Incr /vol/fs03/
> 12/21/2008 15:20:24 Incr /vol/fs03/
> 12/23/2008 10:42:47 Incr /vol/fs03/
>
> OK - now if I want /vol/fs03 back to its best state as of 12/23, I need
> to restore the 12/5 full & the 12/19 through 12/23 incrementals. The
> incrementals from 12/6 to 12/18 are included in the 12/19 Cumulative so
> I don't want to waste my time (and in fact, may contain data that we
> deleted and we want don't want to restore).
>
> What I want to issue is one "smart" command:
> "bprestore -s 12/5/2008 -e 12/23/2008 /vol/fs03".
>
> I want 5 images to come back.
>
> If Netbackup does it dumb, then this is two restore statements:
> "bprestore -s 12/5/2008 -e 12/5/2008 /vol/fs03"
> "bprestore -s 12/19/2008 -e 12/23/2008 /vol/fs03"
>
> So, in response to the single "smart" command, will Netbackup restore
> just 5 images or do a dumb restore and put all the incrementals between
> 12/6 & 12/18 back, too? I know I could write a test for this but it's
> easier right now to see if one of you knows.
>
> -M
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