Netbackup restoration
Hi,
Basically, we have 2 totally separate independent windows domain/forest environment.Each domain environment has its own Windows Netbackup v5.0 MP2 master server and tape library which are identical.My question is about the feasibility for restoring files using media(s) which are used / backed up by first Netbackup master server onto second Netbackup master server in the other environment. If this is possible, as far as I know the steps might only involve :
1. Take out the media (s) including catalog media from the original master server library .
2. Put the media (s) above into the other library on the other environment.
3. Initiate 'import catalog'on the destination master server
4. Follow thru backup, archive, and restore process
I understand for normal restoration on the same master sever, it is possible to do restore files on different host than the host where the files are backed up from, but whether it is possible to do that in this situation (doing the restoration on totally different hostname and environment).
Regards,
Basically, we have 2 totally separate independent windows domain/forest environment.Each domain environment has its own Windows Netbackup v5.0 MP2 master server and tape library which are identical.My question is about the feasibility for restoring files using media(s) which are used / backed up by first Netbackup master server onto second Netbackup master server in the other environment. If this is possible, as far as I know the steps might only involve :
1. Take out the media (s) including catalog media from the original master server library .
2. Put the media (s) above into the other library on the other environment.
3. Initiate 'import catalog'on the destination master server
4. Follow thru backup, archive, and restore process
I understand for normal restoration on the same master sever, it is possible to do restore files on different host than the host where the files are backed up from, but whether it is possible to do that in this situation (doing the restoration on totally different hostname and environment).
Regards,
ASKER
Thanks for your response Labsy.
Actually in short what we are aiming is to restore just normal flat files on member server in one domain to be restored on member server in other domain. If possible I wouldn't create the catalog media duplication but instead using the original catalog media and put it in onto the destination master server.
I've heard it is possible another product which is run on unix environment to restore a media which is backed up from another backup server, so I'm just wondering netbackup also should be able to deal with this situation for disaster recovery scenario ?
Indeed if we think about the Security related entities (SID, authentication, etc), also wondering how it could handle this requirement.
But I'm still pretty sure this is a common scenario and requirement for real disaster recovery in which any data protection and management product should already have certain features in it.
So if someone maybe with have similar experiences could share some information maybe.
Cheers,
Regards,
Actually in short what we are aiming is to restore just normal flat files on member server in one domain to be restored on member server in other domain. If possible I wouldn't create the catalog media duplication but instead using the original catalog media and put it in onto the destination master server.
I've heard it is possible another product which is run on unix environment to restore a media which is backed up from another backup server, so I'm just wondering netbackup also should be able to deal with this situation for disaster recovery scenario ?
Indeed if we think about the Security related entities (SID, authentication, etc), also wondering how it could handle this requirement.
But I'm still pretty sure this is a common scenario and requirement for real disaster recovery in which any data protection and management product should already have certain features in it.
So if someone maybe with have similar experiences could share some information maybe.
Cheers,
Regards,
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Oh, wait...I read your question once again...
You are asking, if you can restore files from domain1/forest1 onto domain2/forest2? I am not sure...if I think how it works, tape cannot store SID information of NTFS auth, which means, authentication is stored in database and permissions for access to files are restricted within backup software. Which means, if you can import catalog into another domain, and read files, you can also restore files to any domain or environment. But question is how NetBackup would handle imported catalogs...
Hmmm...not looking good:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH72098