[How To] Browse old clients moved from an old server to a new server

Hi!,

First, feel fre to change the title or ask to modify the content wit other experiences...

Enviroment information:

We have done a new fresh installation of Networker 7.6.4.x server into a new machine (Win2K8).

In order to get the data back (Savesets and Indexes from the old backup server, to recover old data), we have done the inventory process from old tapes saved before the new installation, and then create two new ficticious clients for those savesets, such as temp.machine1 and temp.machine2.

To do this, we nee to create a duumy client entry inside the Hosts file of the new backup server:

1.1.1.1 temp.machine1

1.1.1.2 temp.machine2

Then get the clientID form the old savesets scanned for the old tapes with CLI:

mminfo -avot -q ssid=xxxxx -r clientid, client,name

Where XXXX is the saveset of the old clients backup before the new install and have been scanned form the old tapes.

The machine1 and machine2 are the same clients, but now, as logical these two clients have different ClientIDs, so how we can recover the data???

The only thing is to follow this procedure :

1. Create the dummy clients: first is set in the Hosts file inside the new backup server

2. Create these clients such temp.xxx and temp.yyy with the same Old clientId that we get form the mminfo query.

3. Run form the client a nwrecover process and change to the dummy client taht you would like to recover data.

* Question:

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Everytime we do a new scanner process we can not browse the dummy clients, such and error regarding the aliases are not configured appears?¿

Solution/Workaround: delete the dummy clients and re-create it with the same old clientID.

How can avoid this behavior?

Hope this helps!

Regards,

Alexander