Troubleshooting guide

Master Server Disk Recovery
206 NetBackup Troubleshooting Guide - UNIX
3. Install NetBackup on the alternate disk. See the NetBackup Installation Guide - UNIX for
instructions on installing NetBackup software.
Note Do not reconfigure NetBackup classes. If reconfiguration is necessary, you will be
given the necessary instructions later in this procedure.
Install only the robotic software for the devices that are required to read backups of
the NetBackup databases and the regular backups of the disk being restored. If a
nonrobotic drive can read these backups, then you do not need a robot. The example
on Figure 2 requires only a nonrobotic tape drive.
4. Recover the NetBackup databases to the alternate disk by using the bprecover
command on the master server.
The NetBackup databases can be recovered only to the same location from which they
were backed up (alternate path recovery is not allowed).
Choose one of the procedures under “Recovering the NetBackup Databases” on
page 211.
5. Restore the root partition to the disk you are recovering.
6. Start the NetBackup client user interface and restore the latest backed up version of all
files to the disk you are recovering.
It is not necessary to restore the NetBackup databases because you will be doing this
in step 7. But you must restore all other NetBackup files.
7. Copy the NetBackup databases from the alternate disk to the disk that you are
recovering. These are the databases recovered in step 4.
8. Stop all NetBackup processes that you started from NetBackup on the alternate disk.
9. Start and test the copy of NetBackup on the disk that you have recovered.
Try the NetBackup Administration utilities. Also, try some backups and restores.
10. When you are satisfied that the recovery is complete, delete the NetBackup files from
the alternate disk. Or, unhook that disk, if it is a spare.
11. Make the recovered disk the boot disk again.