I haven't looked recently but if the redirected restore or process to list 
images and do the recovery isn't in the latest SQL admin guide take a look in 
the 6.0 or 6.5 manual.  I guarantee its there.

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> On Jul 15, 2015, at 4:03 PM, Lightner, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The backup of MS-SQL is done by batch jobs initiated from the MS-SQL server 
> itself so it seems any restore would likewise have to be done that way.   I 
> verified I get the same results you do when checking one of our MS-SQL 
> backups with bplist on our Linux master.
>  
> Checking for this I did find this cached article at Google:
> http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bRMhhXHYkD4J:https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH23166.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
>  
> That suggests you do in fact need to run bplist on the MS-SQL server itself 
> rather than from your Netbackup master like you’d do for standard backups.  
>  
> I haven’t tried this myself as I’m not the Windows admin here.  
>  
> If I read it right the bplist will create the file you can use to do the 
> restore with.   It also notes you’d have to modify the restore file bplist 
> creates if you do not want to overwrite the original database.
>  
>  
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron Jack
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 4:19 PM
> To: Patrick
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Using BPLIST and BPRESTORE on Windows
>  
> I've always had to specify a path at the end of a bplist command. But I've 
> never tried it with a DB.
>  
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Patrick <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> Have you tried it with less parameters. I find it is usually better to use as 
> few as possible until I get an output, the add them back till I reach the 
> ones I need.
> bppllist is one of the most difficult commands to get right, but it can be 
> done, you just need perseverance.  :)
> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "itsonlyme4" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: 13/07/2015 19:55:09
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Using BPLIST and BPRESTORE on Windows
> 
> We are running SQL Server 2008 R2 in an Active\Passive Cluster on Windows 
> 2008R2.
> 
> We now have the need to recover this Server and it's Databases at our 
> Disaster Recovery site.
> 
> We will NOT be setting up the Cluster at the Disaster Recovery site, only a 
> standalone Server which we will recover the Databases to.
> 
> We are running Netbackup 7.5 and the 7.5 Client (SQL Server Agent)
> 
> on our cluster, the SQL Server connection properties page in the Netbackup 
> Client looks like this:
> 
> Host:  SQLServerInstancename
> Instance: Default
> SQL Server version: 2008 R2
> Security: Mixed
> Host type: virtual
> Userid: sa
> password: sapassword
> 
> 
> and this is our backup script:
> OPERATION BACKUP
> DATABASE $ALL
> SQLHOST "SQLServerInstancename"
> NBSERVER "BackupServername"
> MAXTRANSFERSIZE 6
> BLOCKSIZE 7
> POLICY Onsite_SQL-Cluster_Database
> BROWSECLIENT "SQLServerClusterName"
> NUMBUFS 2
> VERIFYOPTION STOPONERROR
> ENDOPER TRUE
> 
> My question is this:
> 
> I know I can go to any server and configure the Netbackup client and pull up 
> the Databases available for restore on the clustered instance.
> 
> What I am struggling with is pulling up the list using BPLIST so that I can 
> then use BPRESTORE to do a redirected restore.
> 
> for BPLIST I have tried the following:
> 
> C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bplist -C SQLServerInstancename -t 15 
> -S BackupServername -k Onsite_SQL-Cluster_Database -s 06/07/2015 0:00:00 -e 
> 6/12/2015 00:00:00
> 
> and
> 
> C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin>bplist -C SQLServerClusterName -t 15 
> -S BackupServername -k Onsite_SQL-Cluster_Database -s 06/07/2015 0:00:00 -e 
> 6/12/2015 00:00:00
> 
> and each time I got this error:   EXIT STATUS 227: no entity was found
> 
> Can anyone help?  I'm sure I just have a syntax error or maybe a missing 
> parameter?
> 
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