Firstly, welcome to the forums, and above all, thank you for being an EMC customer.
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Find another Linux/Unix host and redirect the recovery to this host. After recovering the file, move it manually to windows host. You can use ftp or any file transfer application (winscp, filezilla etc) to move the file.
The process for recovery is always the same, it doesn't change regardless of the media type you are using for restore (either disk, tape or virtual tape).
The backup command should be the same as the one you were running, but you NEED to have the same OS in both, source and destination.
In other words, if you were backing up a Linux box, you will need to restore into a Linux box, you cannot restore that data into a Windows box.
Please let us know if you need any further information.
1. When doing directed recover you have to add permissions. In NMC open resource of source client and add to “remote access” username and machine in format user@destmachine
2. From destination client run “recover –c sourceclientname”
3. Use help to understand recover syntax it is simple
I really can't see how you plan to do restore if you have no clue about basics? Chances are that you will most likely destroy second box.
With that said, here is what you can do:
a) browsable recovers
- go to system where you wish to restore (make sure NW is installed and defined as client)
- run recover -s -c (do this as root and make sure root@target is on remote access list of source client)
- browse to folder where data is
- if there are multiple instances of data (like yesterday, day before, etc, 4 days ago), do versions and select with changetime date listed by versions
- do add (or whatever you want to restore)
- recover
b) ssid restore
- this makes sense if you wish to restore specific date backup only, eg, 4 days ago AND if restoring whole ssid (or you know exact path of what you wish to restore - see EXTRA)
- on backup server do mminfo -avot -q client= -t "10 days ago" -r "ssid,name,savetime(20)"
- above will give you list of backups for your backup client 10 days back from the day of query - select one by date you need and write down value in first column (ssid)
- on target client run recover -s -S -d (do this as root and make sure root@target is on remote access list of source client)
EXTRA:
- if you wish to run ssid restore, but not restore whole backup (eg. not whole save set), but only part of it, this is possible too and it requires you to know exact path (exact as case sensitive)
- an example: recover -s -S -d /tH1s/1S/pATh
- above will still read whole save set, but actually restore only data matching selection done above
MohanLTHF
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November 10th, 2013 22:00
When i am recover file using command, it shows the below error. please tell me how to specified the single file name to restore.
Kindly note i need to restore file from tape. not from disk.
D:\>recover -s -c -d -iR -a
Recovering 24 files within / into D:\
Total estimated disk space needed for recover is 95 GB.
Requesting 24 file(s), this may take a while...
Permission denied by server : Cross platform recovery not supported
christopher_ime
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November 10th, 2013 22:00
Firstly, welcome to the forums, and above all, thank you for being an EMC customer.
Please consider moving this question as-is (no need to recreate) to the proper forum for maximum visibility. Questions written to the users' own "Discussions" space don't get the same amount of attention and can go unanswered for a long time.
You can do so by selecting "Move" under ACTIONS along the upper-right. Then search for and select: "NetWorker Support Forum".
NetWorker Support Forum
bingo.1
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November 11th, 2013 01:00
This is pretty obvious - you just need to restore the data to a client of the same platform (type).
Windows ---> Windows
UNIX/Linux ---> UNIX/Linux
So if you do not want to use the same machine you at least need ather client of the same platform.
MohanLTHF
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November 11th, 2013 01:00
then how would i restore data from Tape using Networker or client server.
Please help
MohanLTHF
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November 11th, 2013 01:00
please provide the steps to restore the data from tape to other linux servers.
Lucky85
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November 11th, 2013 01:00
Hello, you should also check source and destination fs type…
Regards
Lukas
nmc2
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November 11th, 2013 01:00
Workaround:
Find another Linux/Unix host and redirect the recovery to this host. After recovering the file, move it manually to windows host. You can use ftp or any file transfer application (winscp, filezilla etc) to move the file.
Regards,
Prajith
MohanLTHF
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November 11th, 2013 01:00
We have a same platform machine available with us.
Can u pls tell me the procedure to restore the data from Tape.
Note:
Netrworker installed server - Windows server 2003
Client server - Suse linux
Tape drive installed at windows server machine (where the restore tape mounted)
Please help how would i start the restore.
bingo.1
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November 11th, 2013 01:00
The message clearly points out that you cannot restore UNIX/Linux files to a Windows box.
Such has never been an option.
CarlosRojas
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November 11th, 2013 02:00
Hi Mohan,
The process for recovery is always the same, it doesn't change regardless of the media type you are using for restore (either disk, tape or virtual tape).
The backup command should be the same as the one you were running, but you NEED to have the same OS in both, source and destination.
In other words, if you were backing up a Linux box, you will need to restore into a Linux box, you cannot restore that data into a Windows box.
Please let us know if you need any further information.
Thank you,
Carlos
MohanLTHF
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November 11th, 2013 02:00
Hi Carlos,
Thanks for your input..
Can u please share me the commands to restore the data from tape.
And confirm from where this command needs to enter.
Lucky85
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November 11th, 2013 02:00
Hello,
1. When doing directed recover you have to add permissions. In NMC open resource of source client and add to “remote access” username and machine in format user@destmachine
2. From destination client run “recover –c sourceclientname”
3. Use help to understand recover syntax it is simple
4. Run recover…
Regards
Lukas
bingo.1
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November 11th, 2013 03:00
Hello Mohan,
you started with a directed recovery command.
Unfortunately, you only used alias names here. That's ok but of course does not provide the complete input.
Obviously your destination client name was a Windows box.
The easiest way to avoid that has already been mentioned:
- login to the original client.
- use the recover command from here.
- If the original client is the same machine, you only need to run "recover -s ".
- If the original client is the same machine and you only have 1 NW server, simply run "recover" and use "help" to proceed.
- If you want to use an older version, browse through the appropriate time or address the correct save set as follows:
# recover -s -iR -S -a
- Do not forget that with NW 7 you can still use the nwrecover GUI on the UNIX/Linux client.
Regards
ble1
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November 11th, 2013 03:00
I really can't see how you plan to do restore if you have no clue about basics? Chances are that you will most likely destroy second box.
With that said, here is what you can do:
a) browsable recovers
- go to system where you wish to restore (make sure NW is installed and defined as client)
- run recover -s -c (do this as root and make sure root@target is on remote access list of source client)
- browse to folder where data is
- if there are multiple instances of data (like yesterday, day before, etc, 4 days ago), do versions and select with changetime date listed by versions
- do add (or whatever you want to restore)
- recover
b) ssid restore
- this makes sense if you wish to restore specific date backup only, eg, 4 days ago AND if restoring whole ssid (or you know exact path of what you wish to restore - see EXTRA)
- on backup server do mminfo -avot -q client= -t "10 days ago" -r "ssid,name,savetime(20)"
- above will give you list of backups for your backup client 10 days back from the day of query - select one by date you need and write down value in first column (ssid)
- on target client run recover -s -S -d (do this as root and make sure root@target is on remote access list of source client)
EXTRA:
- if you wish to run ssid restore, but not restore whole backup (eg. not whole save set), but only part of it, this is possible too and it requires you to know exact path (exact as case sensitive)
- an example: recover -s -S -d /tH1s/1S/pATh
- above will still read whole save set, but actually restore only data matching selection done above