I am currently working on a project formalise the long term handling of the VMs in our environment. One activity is retain an image backup on physical tape with regular test restores for those VMs that need to be online, but not necessarily backed up any more.

Backup and restore work as such, but I'd like to test a restore from a clone. We use VTLs and the clone would from from a virtual tape volume to a physical tape volume.

Cloning also works, but I'm hitting a snag when trying to restore from the clone. I admit, this may not even be implemented and I suppose I could mark the original save set suspect, but to satisfy my more academic curiosity I'm trying to use the recover -S ssid/cloneid syntax, together with all the VADP specific options.

It seems NetWorker either errors out with a path not found:

Error: The following internal error occurred: Tmp directory doesn't exist: C:\Program Files\EMC NetWorker\nsr\tmp\2535811546/1411741444\vcbTmp

The 2535811546/1411741444 pair is the ssid/cloneid. I can imagine Windows not being able to handle a forward slash in the pathname. I also tried using -d . I don't get the same error, but recover still goes for the original ssid on virtual tape.

I'm currently on NetWorker 8.1.1.4 on Windows Server 2008R2. I'm planning to patch to 8.1.1.9 or even 8.1.2 in the short term.