legato nwrecover issue

[nyck]

Hello,

I have got a server that i need to scrap and rebuild. I ran a backup of it using legato networker 7.1.2 and it all worked fine and dandy. I then went to restore this machine from our legato server using nwrecover and from the gui i selected the client i wish to restore the data from, selected browse time and set it to restore locally on the legato server. I hit the restore button and it requested totally different tapes and not the tape i wanted. I tried a local nwrecover on the client and that selected the correct tape. What am i doing wrong?

cheers

nick

 

[ozi403]

Maybe you select the wrong browse time.
Check the backup time of savesets on the tape which you want then select the browse time.

 

[Chacalinc]

i selected the client i wish to restore the data from, ... and set it to restore locally on the legato server

what you are doing is called "redirected restore". Ussualy it is done through command line, not GUI. you should do it with the "recover" command, not "nwrecover".

man recover

 

[nyck]

i just checked on the client and saw that the date was wrong. I set the correct date and ran the backup. When it finished i then ran rwrecover with the correct browse time and its still doing the same!.

I will try a recover command also.

 

[605]

you know the savetime. Run

mminfo -q "savetime=time" -r "client, name, ssid, volume"

and compare the output.

 

[marc0146]

Chacalinc is right, you can't use directed recover with nwrecover.
On the Unix Administration Guide, it explains that for directed recovery under Unix only, you must use the command recover. The GUI nwrecover doesn't support the functionality of directed recover.

Marc

 

[nyck]

Hello,

i have now resolved this issue. The problem was caused by the index of the client being corrupted. I fixed the corruption and was able to restore the data that i needed.

Cheers

nick

 

[605]

It would not really help you but there is an OEM version for NW/UNIX (Fujitsu-Siemens) which is in fact capable to do directed recoveries. It has the capability to select a source and a destination client from the GUI.

Also, do not forget that you can start directive recoveries from the Windows GUI, even for UNIX Clients. As long as you do not backup this machine, you do not even need a license.