Veritas NetBackup™ in Highly Available Environments Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.1.1, 8.1)
  1. NetBackup protection against single points of failure
    1. About protecting against component failures
      1.  
        About protecting against network link failures
      2. About protecting against storage device connection failures
        1.  
          About protecting against SAN connection failures
        2.  
          About protecting against robotic control connection failures
      3.  
        About protecting against storage device failure
      4.  
        About protecting against media availability failures
      5.  
        About protecting against master server failures
      6. About protecting against media server failures
        1.  
          About protecting against dedicated media server failures
        2.  
          About protecting against non-dedicated media servers failures
        3.  
          About protecting against SAN media server failures
        4.  
          Restoring tape backups using an alternative media server
        5.  
          Restoring disk backups using an alternative media server.
      7.  
        About protecting against LAN client failures
      8.  
        About protecting against SAN client failures
    2.  
      About protecting against site failures
    3.  
      About protecting catalog in highly available environments
  2. About site disaster recovery with catalog backup and recovery
    1.  
      Disaster recovery packages
    2. About catalog recovery
      1.  
        About full catalog recovery
      2.  
        Performing full catalog restore
      3.  
        Making the DR environment consistent after a full catalog restore
      4.  
        About partial catalog recovery
      5.  
        Performing partial catalog restore
      6.  
        Making the DR environment consistent after a partial catalog restore
    3. About disk recovery in DR domain
      1.  
        Disk recovery in single-domain replication DR environment
      2.  
        Auto Image Replication
      3.  
        Disk recovery in cross-domain replication DR environment
  3. About site loss protection with auto image and catalog replication
    1.  
      About Auto Image Replication (AIR)
    2. About NetBackup catalog replication
      1.  
        About conditions for support of replicated NetBackup catalogs
      2.  
        About catalog synchronization
      3. About multi-site single domain replication
        1.  
          About multi-site single domain with stretched SAN
        2.  
          About multi-site single domain with optimized duplication
      4. About multi-site cross domain replication
        1.  
          About multi-site cross domain and BasicDisk storage
        2.  
          Planning a cross domain replication disaster recovery domain
      5. About full catalog replication
        1.  
          Recovering the catalog with full catalog replication
        2.  
          Making the DR environment consistent with full catalog replication
      6. About partial catalog replication
        1.  
          Preparing an environment for partial catalog replication
        2.  
          Recovering the environment with partial catalog replication
        3.  
          Making the disaster recovery environment consistent with partial catalog replication
        4.  
          Considerations for managing tapes with partial catalog replication
  4. Deploying NetBackup master servers with full catalog replication
    1.  
      About replication considerations
  5. Using NetBackup to perform backups and restores in a cluster
    1. About backups and restores with NetBackup in a cluster
      1.  
        Performing user-directed backups with NetBackup in a cluster
      2. About restoring data in a cluster
        1.  
          Example: Performing a user-directed restore in a NetBackup cluster
    2. About supported NetBackup application agents in a cluster
      1.  
        About backing up database files in a cluster
      2.  
        About user backups
      3.  
        About NetBackup client in a cluster

About restoring data in a cluster

For all file restore operations, use the procedures on how to perform restores in the NetBackup Backup, Archive, and Restore Getting Started Guide. When you restore files to the shared disk drives, restore those files to the virtual server name.

When you restore individual database files, restore those files to the virtual server name that corresponds to the client where the database application is installed.

Note:

Since a computer can have multiple virtual names in a cluster environment, files can be backed up in the context of more than one client name. If you carefully plan your backup policies, you can avoid this problem. However, it may be necessary to browse more than one client name to locate a backup image. And you may need to perform more than one restore to restore all of the files that you need.

The Backup, Archive, and Restore console operates in the context of that client's name. You must perform a redirected restore to restore the files on the shared disk that were backed up with the virtual server name. NetBackup allows a redirected restore operation only if the necessary configuration is performed on the NetBackup master server. See the information on how to allow redirected restores in the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.

There may be other situations that require the appropriate altnames directory entries to be created on the master server. While NetBackup tries to restore files from the client, the operation may fail with this error message:

131 client is not validated to use this server

If you see this message, you must set up the altnames directory to allow the operation to succeed. For example, the required network interface parameter may be set to a valid network name for the client. But this name may not match the NetBackup Client name parameter for that client. This situation often happens for NetBackup clients in a cluster. Alternatively, you can perform a server-directed restore and avoid the need to set up the altnames directory.

See Example: Performing a user-directed restore in a NetBackup cluster.