Re: [Veritas-bu] Script Restores?
Of course you can script them. Just use the bprestore command in a script. Just make sure to use the -L option and log each restore to a different file, so you can see how they worked. --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bthessel Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:36 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Script Restores? Is it possible to script restore jobs? I have about 20 9840 tapes containing about 100 jobs on a NB 5.1 system that I need to restore and then copy the data over to a new location to be backed up in NB 6 to LTO3. Doing it manually is taking forever since I have to do one job at a time. Any help is appreciated, I don't want to be doing this for the next month straight. +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Script Restores?
On 1/7/08, Paul Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sure, look up bprestore. > > But, is there any reason you wouldn't just connect a 9840 to your new > system, import the tapes and dupe the image to LTO3. > I'd give it a try before going the restore -> backup route. This is an excellent suggestion since the restore/backup route has many issues. First, all of your expiration dates will be recalculated doing this. Secondly, you're going to have fun duplicating your incremental backup images... Restoring a full, backing it up, and then restoring separately an incremental and backing it up probably won't give you what you started with. Paul's approach is a good one - get NetBackup to duplicate the image to LTO3 then expire the images on the 9840s. You can probably find a 3rd party that can duplicate all those images to a new format too. > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of bthessel > > Sent: January 3, 2008 2:36 PM > > To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Script Restores? > > > > > > > > Is it possible to script restore jobs? I have about 20 9840 > > tapes containing about 100 jobs on a NB 5.1 system that I > > need to restore and then copy the data over to a new location > > to be backed up in NB 6 to LTO3. Doing it manually is taking > > forever since I have to do one job at a time. Any help is > > appreciated, I don't want to be doing this for the next month > > straight. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Script Restores?
Sure, look up bprestore. But, is there any reason you wouldn't just connect a 9840 to your new system, import the tapes and dupe the image to LTO3. I'd give it a try before going the restore -> backup route. Paul -- > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of bthessel > Sent: January 3, 2008 2:36 PM > To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Script Restores? > > > > Is it possible to script restore jobs? I have about 20 9840 > tapes containing about 100 jobs on a NB 5.1 system that I > need to restore and then copy the data over to a new location > to be backed up in NB 6 to LTO3. Doing it manually is taking > forever since I have to do one job at a time. Any help is > appreciated, I don't want to be doing this for the next month > straight. La version française suit le texte anglais. This email may contain privileged and/or confidential information, and the Bank of Canada does not waive any related rights. Any distribution, use, or copying of this email or the information it contains by other than the intended recipient is unauthorized. If you received this email in error please delete it immediately from your system and notify the sender promptly by email that you have done so. Le présent courriel peut contenir de l'information privilégiée ou confidentielle. La Banque du Canada ne renonce pas aux droits qui s'y rapportent. Toute diffusion, utilisation ou copie de ce courriel ou des renseignements qu'il contient par une personne autre que le ou les destinataires désignés est interdite. Si vous recevez ce courriel par erreur, veuillez le supprimer immédiatement et envoyer sans délai à l'expéditeur un message électronique pour l'aviser que vous avez éliminé de votre ordinateur toute copie du courriel reçu. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Script Restores?
Sure - at least on UNIX/Linux. Just do your script around the bprestore command. For example we use this for doing data refreshes from a backup run on one server to a development database on another one: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bprestore -R -L restorelog -C -D -S -s MM/DD/YY hh:mm -e MM/DD/YY hh:mm -f The -s specifies the date/time the backup was started and the -e specifies the end of the range you want to search. The -f specifies a separate file in which you specify which items you wish to restore (e.g. we do a backup that includes data and binaries but in this list we only put in the selections that would be for data as we don't do binary refreshes with this process). The -R specifies a separate file that gives alternate paths for selections. e.g. original backup directories shown in the earlier list might be /database/prod1 and /database/prod2. We would equate /database/prod1 with /database/dev1 then /database/prod2 with /database/dev2 so it would use the dev paths as the alternate paths for restore. We also set the bp.conf to do FORCE_MEDIA_RESTORE from the -C client to the -D client as both are media servers in our environment. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bthessel Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 2:36 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Script Restores? Is it possible to script restore jobs? I have about 20 9840 tapes containing about 100 jobs on a NB 5.1 system that I need to restore and then copy the data over to a new location to be backed up in NB 6 to LTO3. Doing it manually is taking forever since I have to do one job at a time. Any help is appreciated, I don't want to be doing this for the next month straight. +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. Thank you. -- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Script Restores?
You can restore from the command-line using "bprestore", and you can backup using "bpbackup". As far as choosing what you're going restore and from when, I'm not sure exactly how your backups are laid out or anything so you're going to have to look at the Command Reference or man pages for bprestore to see if you can find a relatively easy way to script it for your needs. But the tools are available from the command-line to make the restores happen from a script. - Original Message - From: "bthessel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2008 1:35:51 PM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago Subject: [Veritas-bu] Script Restores? Is it possible to script restore jobs? I have about 20 9840 tapes containing about 100 jobs on a NB 5.1 system that I need to restore and then copy the data over to a new location to be backed up in NB 6 to LTO3. Doing it manually is taking forever since I have to do one job at a time. Any help is appreciated, I don't want to be doing this for the next month straight. +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Script Restores?
Is it possible to script restore jobs? I have about 20 9840 tapes containing about 100 jobs on a NB 5.1 system that I need to restore and then copy the data over to a new location to be backed up in NB 6 to LTO3. Doing it manually is taking forever since I have to do one job at a time. Any help is appreciated, I don't want to be doing this for the next month straight. +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
