Media Server DR Testing Issue

[OHWS]

I have restored the catalog backup tape to a standalone hp9000 HP-UX server and am attempting to run the vmquery -m command on the tape I want to test a DB restore of and I receive an error "Volume does not exist in the DB?" My production scenario is Veritas Netbackup 4.5fp6 for the Master server and Media servers all on hp9000 hardware with HP-UX 11.11 running. 1 Master server and 5 Media Servers being restored to one single DR server.
I used the bprecover -r -tpath -dhost method to restore my catalog backup. I can perform a bpimmedia command on the backup I am trying to restore without any issues. But it seems that the Media Server (voldb) information is not quite working correctly, due to "vmquery" not running? I went ahead and reran the bprecover command and answered "no" to everything but the media server that has the tape information I need to make sure that it wasn't overwriting the voldb each time. This still did not work.

Also noteworthy is the fact that I have went from an ACS robot configuration to a standalone scenario.

Thanks for any suggestions! JR

 

[Stumpr]

So you have all of the media server's tapes now allocated to the master? Did you do a
bpmedia -movedb -m <mediaID> -newserver <newmaster> -oldserver <oldmediaserver>

to change the ownership of the tapes?

Bob Stump
Just because the VERITAS documentation states a certain thing does not make it a fact and thats the truth

 

[OHWS]

I attempted to run that command but the Veritas software then tried to connect to the original Media server and failed to connect since I am not connected to a network.

 

[GreyWanderer]

Need to set "fail over restore" server on standalone box.

Non-recovered media servers to recovered master server.

That way when the restore request is made and tries to hand-off tape operation to media server that performed original backup, it will fail the process off to the server listed in "fail over".