Save.exe backups not browsable.

Question

Hello gurus,

I have need for your help.

I am running Networker 7.5.1, the Server is UNIX, the clients are UNIX, but mostly Windows. I am running the save.exe command on both windows 2003 and a windows 2008 clients.

This is the syntax that I use;

save -s host -w month -y month -b "Clone" -o vss:*=off E:\mnt\client-fullVM >> logfile.txt 2>&1

The tail of the output looks like this;

save: E:\mnt\client-fullVM 63 GB 00:37:58 55 files
7167:save: save completion time: 11/26/2009 4:54:44 AM

When I go into Networker User, I do not see the files (that I backed up using the save.exe command) for restore. Everything else is there, C:\ & the System State are available for restore.

When I go into the Networker Management Console and look at the save sets, I see that all files that run through the Networker scheduler are "browsable". The files that I backed up using the save.exe command show up as "recoverable".

My question is 3 part;

1) How would I recover the files that were backed up using the save.exe command?

2) How can I browse to the files that I ran the backup against?

3) Is there a switch that I am missing, where I could make the save.exe backups recoverable?

Thanks in advance,

Andy

coganb · Accepted Answer

How exactly you can recover the files will depend on the results of the mminfo command.

Check out the following Knowledgebase articles which should tell you everything you need to know:

esg51805 - Save Set recovery, Cannot see files to recover in gui

http://solutions.emc.com/EMCSolutionview.asp?action=email&id=esg51805

and

esg52352 - Basic Recovery Tips

http://solutions.emc.com/EMCSolutionview.asp?action=email&id=esg52352

To run mminfo from the client, use the '-s' switch for example:

mminfo -s [nw_server_name] -q "name=E:\mnt\client-fullVM" -r ssid,name,savetime,totalsize,ssbrowse,ssretent,clretent,sumflags,ssflags

-Bobby

coganb · Answer

your command looks good to me - have a look at what browse and retention time you are getting on the saveset and it might give you an idea what is happening here:

mminfo - q "name=E:\mnt\client-fullVM" -r ssid,name,savetime,totalsize,ssbrowse,ssretent,clretent,sumflags,ssflags

-Bobby

Immad70 · Answer

Bobby,

You were very helpful, you answered part 2 and 3.

Now with the information that I gathered from the mminfo, what would the syntax be for recovering the saveset?

Also, this is probably a dumb question, but should running the mminfo command on a client work? It didn't work on my Windows 2003 client.

Immad70 · Answer

Your answer is very complete.  I do thank you very much. Andy

ble1 · Answer

Andy, I see that your pool is called Clone.  I just assume here, but if I assume that this is backup clone type pool then it makes sense that your backups are not browsable due to property that such pools do not store index entries.

Immad70 · Answer

My co-worker had mentioned that to me as well. Is there any way to run the save.exe command (from the cli), which will call a clone of the saveset afterwards?

ble1 · Answer

Not directly.  You will need to call nsrclone via CLI from storage node or server.

NetWorker

Save.exe backups not browsable.

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