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:
For a deployment running NetWorker version 19.8, ensure that the NetWorker server state is set to the
disaster recovery state.
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 vaultDD 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
Select
Recovery from the
Main Menu.
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.
In the
Application dialog box, do the following:
Select a NetWorker application host.
Enter the DD Boost username and password.
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.
Click
Apply.
The copy's recovery status is marked as
In Progress.
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.
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.
Click the job
recoverapp_<ID> name and view the status detail.
The Status Detail provides the name of the newly created sandbox.
Click
Recovery Sandboxes from the top of the
Recovery pane and do the following:
To view the recovery details, select the
recoverapp_<ID> name.
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.
To delete the sandbox, click
Cleanup.
(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.
Results
After a NetWorker recovery, a copy's recovery status is marked as:
Recoverable if the recovery is successful
Failed if the recovery fails
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