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
- A restore task may remain in a finalized state in the disaster recovery domain even after the client restores successfully
- 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
- BMR client recovery to other NetBackup Domain using Auto Image Replication
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.