Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide
- Introducing Bare Metal Restore
- Configuring BMR
- Protecting clients
- Setting up restore environments
- Shared resource trees
- Pre-requisites for Shared Resource Tree
- Creating a shared resource tree
- Managing shared resource trees
- Adding software to a shared resource tree
- Importing a shared resource tree
- Copying a shared resource tree
- Deleting a shared resource tree
- Managing boot media
- Restoring clients
- BMR disk recovery behavior
- About restoring BMR clients using network boot
- About restoring BMR clients using media boot
- About restoring to a specific point in time
- About restoring to dissimilar disks
- Restoring to a dissimilar system
- About restoring NetBackup media servers
- About external procedures
- About external procedure environment variables
- About SAN (storage area network) support
- About multiple network interface support
- Managing Windows drivers packages
- Managing clients and configurations
- Client configuration properties
- Managing BMR boot servers
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting issues regarding creation of virtual machine from client backup
- Creating virtual machine from client backup
- Virtual machine creation from backup
- Monitoring Bare Metal Restore Activity
- Appendix A. NetBackup BMR related appendices
- Network services configurations on BMR boot Server
About external procedure data transfer
You can use the bmrc command to transfer files from the BMR master server to a client during a restore.
On UNIX systems, store data in the /tmp
file system or in the file systems that are mounted under /tmp
. All other file systems are read only during a restore.
On Windows systems, transferred files are stored in the current directory by default. The directory is %SystemDrive%\
during restore. The directory is %HOMEPATH%
during the first boot procedure. You can specify other path names or file names on the command line.
The following is an example of using the bmrc command to transfer a file from the master server to the client:
bmrc -operation pull -resource procedure -client clientName -source file_on_server -destination /tmp/filename
When you start the bmrc command in an external procedure, specify the full path in the restore environment, as follows:
On UNIX and Linux clients:
/usr/openv/NetBackup/bin
On Microsoft Windows clients:
%SystemDrive%\BMR\NBU\bin
At the first boot external procedure point, the path to the bmrc command is
install_path\NetBackup\bin
on Microsoft Windows clients.
For more information about the bmrc command, see the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide.