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Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery 19.12 Product Guide

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Initiating a NetWorker recovery in the Cyber Recovery UI

Initiate a recovery in the Cyber Recovery UI. After you initiate a recovery, the Cyber Recovery software uses the latest system device to complete the recovery operation automatically.

Prerequisites

Ensure that the following prerequisites are met before you initiate a NetWorker recovery:

  • You have obtained the credentials for the Cyber Recovery vault host on which the NetWorker application is installed and for the NetWorker application.
  • The NetWorker server host in the Cyber Recovery vault has the same IP address and hostname as the NetWorker production host.
    NOTE It is not mandatory that the IP address of the server host in the Cyber Recovery vault be the same as the NetWorker production host. However, if you use a different IP address, you might encounter issues with components and agents referring to the NetWorker server by IP address, which require manual intervention. You can avoid these issues if the IP addresses are the same.
  • The NetWorker application is installed in the Cyber Recovery vault and defined as an application asset in Cyber Recovery.
  • The DD Boost user within the vault has the same UID as the production DD Boost user.
  • A policy has created a point-in-time (PIT) copy to use for the recovery.
  • The UID associated with this copy has been created in the Cyber Recovery vault DD system.
  • If your deployment includes NetWorker on Windows, ensure that a Windows host and Cygwin are installed in the Cyber Recovery vault, and Cygwin OpenSSH is enabled. For more information, see the Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery Installation Guide.

Steps

  1. Select Recovery from the Main Menu.
  2. On the Recovery content pane, select the copy, and then click Application.
    NOTE If you select a Windows copy, ensure that you select the NetWorker on Windows application. If you select a copy that does not match the operating system, the recovery operation fails.
  3. In the Application dialog box, do the following:
    1. Select a NetWorker application host.
    2. Enter the DD Boost username and password.
    3. Optionally, enter the name of the folder that includes the last bootstrap backups.
      NOTE If you do not complete this field, the software scans all volumes in the MTree. By completing this field, the automated NetWorker recovery is faster.
    4. Click Apply.
    The Cyber Recovery software runs a job to create a recovery sandbox, populates it with the selected copy, and then makes the sandbox available to the application host.
  4. Wait for the recovery application job to complete creating the sandbox.
    The recovery sandbox is created for the NetWorker application. The latest NetWorker configuration is recovered.
  5. Click the job recoverapp_<ID> name and view the status detail.
    The Status Detail provides the name of the newly created sandbox.
  6. Click Recovery Sandboxes from the top of the Recovery pane and do the following:
    1. To view the recovery details, select the recoverapp_<ID> name.
    2. To validate success, click Launch App and confirm that you want to access the NetWorker UI in the Cyber Recovery vault.
      The Launch App button is active only when the recovery is completed successfully.
    3. To delete the sandbox, click Cleanup.
  7. (Optional) Run the following commands, which are not part of the automated recovery procedure:

    • To populate the recovered media database with the latest save sets, run the scanner -i <device name> command on each device that was created during the recovery.

    • To rebuild the client file indexes, run the nsrck -L7 command. This step is required for browsing files and database recovery.
    NOTE The scanner -i and nsrck -L7 commands are optional, however, they might be required for certain scenarios. For more information, see the NetWorker Server Disaster Recovery Best Practices Guide.

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