Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.1.1)
Platform: Linux,UNIX,Windows
  1. Introducing Bare Metal Restore
    1.  
      About Bare Metal Restore
    2.  
      Server DR protection using BMR
    3.  
      BMR protection phase diagram
    4.  
      UEFI-GPT support in BMR
  2. Configuring BMR
    1.  
      About installing BMR software
    2.  
      Prerequisites for Configuring BMR Servers
    3. Configuring BMR Servers
      1.  
        Configuring BMR Master Server
      2.  
        Setting up the BMR master server on a Windows system
      3. Configuring BMR Boot Server
        1.  
          About choosing boot server hosts
        2.  
          Prerequisites for boot servers
        3.  
          Setting up a BMR boot server
        4.  
          BMR boot servers in a UNIX cluster
        5.  
          BMR boot servers in a Windows cluster
    4. Deactivating BMR servers
      1.  
        Deactivating BMR master server
      2.  
        Deactivating BMR boot server
  3. Protecting clients
    1.  
      Pre-requisites for protecting clients
    2. Backing up BMR clients
      1.  
        Configuring policies to back up BMR clients
      2.  
        Using the same client name in multiple policies
      3.  
        About performing complete backups
      4.  
        About performing a full backup after a restore
      5.  
        Ensuring successful backups
      6.  
        Saving custom files on UNIX or Linux
    3. Monitoring client backups
      1.  
        BMR related other NetBackup properties
    4. Protecting clients with specific use cases
      1.  
        Storage Foundation for Windows Clients
  4. Setting up restore environments
    1.  
      Recovery steps
    2.  
      Installing boot server software
    3.  
      Shared resource trees
    4.  
      Adding client-specific resources
    5.  
      When to use boot media
    6.  
      Preparing client for restoration
  5. Shared resource trees
    1.  
      About shared resource trees
    2. Pre-requisites for Shared Resource Tree
      1.  
        About the space requirements for SRTs
    3. Creating a shared resource tree
      1. Creating an SRT for Windows
        1. Shared Resource Tree Administration Wizard
          1. Create an SRT
            1. Installing Microsoft Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK)
              1. Installing ADK using automatic download and install option
                1.  
                  Progress of ADK download and install process
              2.  
                Using pre-downloaded ADK executable file
            2.  
              Creating SRT on an offline boot server or host
          2.  
            SRT automatic import
          3.  
            Export SRT
          4.  
            Edit an SRT
          5.  
            Import an SRT
          6.  
            Copy an SRT
          7.  
            Delete an SRT
          8. Creating bootable CD or DVD image for Fast Restore SRT
            1.  
              Select an SRT
            2.  
              Specify a location for the ISO image
            3.  
              Completing the Shared Resource Tree configuration panel
          9. Add or update packages to an SRT
            1.  
              Add NetBackup Client to an SRT
            2.  
              Add NetBackup Security Services to an SRT
            3.  
              Add NetBackup Release Update or Maintenance Pack to an SRT
            4.  
              Add NetBackup Language Pack
      2. Creating an SRT for UNIX or Linux
        1.  
          Creating an AIX SRT
        2.  
          Creating an HP-UX SRT
        3.  
          Creating a Solaris SRT
        4.  
          Creating a Linux SRT
    4. Managing shared resource trees
      1. Adding software to a shared resource tree
        1. Adding software to a UNIX or Linux SRT
          1.  
            About adding NetBackup Maintenance Packs
          2.  
            About adding Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas File System
          3.  
            About adding Veritas Security Services
          4.  
            About adding other software
          5.  
            About installing patches and packages into Solaris SRTs
          6.  
            Installing device drivers into Linux SRTs
        2.  
          Adding software to a Windows SRT
      2. Importing a shared resource tree
        1.  
          Importing an SRT on UNIX and Linux
        2.  
          Importing an SRT on Windows
      3. Copying a shared resource tree
        1.  
          Copying an SRT on UNIX and Linux
        2.  
          Copying an SRT on Windows
      4. Deleting a shared resource tree
        1.  
          Deleting an SRT on UNIX and Linux
        2.  
          Deleting an SRT on Windows
      5.  
        Enabling or disabling SRT exclusive use
      6.  
        Repairing a damaged shared resource tree
      7.  
        Breaking a stale shared resource tree lock
    5. Managing boot media
      1.  
        About the supported boot media on Windows
      2.  
        About writing a CD or DVD
      3. Creating boot media for UNIX and Linux
        1.  
          About boot media for AIX
        2.  
          About boot media for HP-UX
        3.  
          About boot media for Linux
        4.  
          About boot media for Solaris
      4.  
        Creating boot media for a Windows client
  6. Restoring clients
    1.  
      BMR restore process
    2.  
      Preparing a client for restore
    3. BMR disk recovery behavior
      1.  
        BMR disk processing with prepare-to-restore options
      2.  
        BMR disk class processing with prepare-to-restore options
      3.  
        Import actions for operating systems or volume managers
    4. About restoring BMR clients using network boot
      1.  
        Restoring an AIX client with network boot
      2.  
        Restoring an HP-UX client with network boot
      3.  
        Restoring a Linux client with network boot
      4.  
        Restoring a Solaris client with network boot
      5.  
        Restoring a Windows client with network boot
    5. About restoring BMR clients using media boot
      1.  
        Restoring an AIX client with media boot
      2.  
        Restoring an HP-UX client with media boot
      3.  
        Restoring a Linux client with media boot
      4.  
        Restoring a Solaris client with media boot
      5.  
        Restoring a Windows client with media boot
    6.  
      Generic BMR Restore
    7.  
      Generic Discovery of Hardware
    8. About restoring to a specific point in time
      1.  
        About the point in time restore process
      2.  
        Creating a point in time restore configuration
    9. About restoring to dissimilar disks
      1.  
        About the dissimilar disk restore process
      2.  
        Creating a restore configuration for DDR
      3.  
        Restoring a client to dissimilar disks
    10. Restoring to a dissimilar system
      1.  
        About dissimilar system restore
      2.  
        About discovering the configuration of the new system
      3.  
        Creating an editable DSR configuration
      4.  
        About adding NIC and MSD drivers
      5.  
        About changing network interfaces
      6.  
        About mapping disks in the restore configuration
      7.  
        About creating boot media
      8.  
        About restoring the client
      9.  
        Logging on for the first time after system restore
    11. About restoring NetBackup media servers
      1. About configuring an alternate media server
        1.  
          Enabling automatic media server failover to an alternate server
        2.  
          Overriding the original media server manually
      2.  
        Restoring the media server
    12.  
      About restoring BMR boot servers
    13. About external procedures
      1.  
        External procedure points and names
      2.  
        About managing external procedures
      3.  
        Specifying external procedures
      4.  
        About external procedure data transfer
      5.  
        About interaction with external procedures
      6.  
        External procedure logging examples
      7.  
        External procedure operational states
      8.  
        About external procedure exit codes
      9.  
        About external procedure error handling
      10. About external procedure environment variables
        1.  
          UNIX and Linux environment variables
        2.  
          AIX environment variables
        3.  
          HP-UX environment variables
        4.  
          Solaris environment variables
        5.  
          Windows environment variables
    14. About SAN (storage area network) support
      1.  
        Restoring Solaris SAN-attached volumes if they are left unmapped
      2.  
        About SANs and dissimilar system restores on Windows clients
    15. About multiple network interface support
      1.  
        About client configuration using gateways
    16.  
      Port usage during restores
  7. Managing Windows drivers packages
    1.  
      About Windows drivers packages
    2. Adding a Windows driver package
      1.  
        Finding the correct driver if Windows is already installed
    3.  
      Deleting a Windows driver package
  8. Managing clients and configurations
    1.  
      About clients and configurations
    2.  
      Copying a configuration
    3.  
      Discovering a configuration
    4.  
      Modifying a configuration
    5.  
      Deleting a configuration
    6.  
      Deleting a client
    7. Client configuration properties
      1.  
        Configuration Summary properties
      2. Devices and drivers properties
        1.  
          Force installation of this driver instead of Windows supplied or newer driver
      3.  
        Hosts properties
      4. Network interfaces properties
        1.  
          Importing and mapping network interfaces
        2.  
          Changing network interfaces manually
        3.  
          Specifying the UNIX and Linux boot interface
      5.  
        Network routes properties
      6. About Volumes properties
        1.  
          About Native Disk Objects
        2.  
          About mapping and unmapping volumes
        3.  
          Mapping volumes
        4.  
          Volumes views
  9. Managing BMR boot servers
    1.  
      About boot servers
    2.  
      Boot server requirements
  10. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Problems booting from CD or DVD
    2.  
      Long restore times
    3.  
      Solaris media boot network parameters issue
    4.  
      How to recover client when BMR configuration is deleted accidentally
    5.  
      First boot after BMR restore fails on UNIX platforms
    6.  
      Client network based boot issue
    7.  
      Verify backup failure while recovering Windows client
    8.  
      The VM takes long time for booting after BMR Physical backup conversion to virtual machine is performed on 32-bit architecture Windows OS
    9.  
      BMR-enabled physical backup to Virtual Machine conversion job fails on Windows platform
    10. Troubleshooting issues regarding creation of virtual machine from client backup
      1.  
        Client name is not visible under virtual machine conversion clients list
      2.  
        Failure during submitting the job of virtual machine creation
      3.  
        Job of creating virtual machine failed
    11.  
      Many services on Solaris 11 and newer print warning messages during a system boot and during BMR first boot
    12.  
      Solaris Zone recovery on Solaris 11 and newer takes time to reconfigure after a BMR restore during first boot
    13.  
      A Solaris BMR restore operation fails if the text-installer package is not present in the customized AI ISO
    14.  
      The /boot partition must be on a separate partition for a multiple device-based OS configuration
    15.  
      Multiple error messages might be displayed during the first boot after the restoration of a client with ZFS storage pools
    16.  
      BMR may not format or clear the ZFS metadata
    17.  
      Specifying the short name of the client to protect with Auto Image Replication and BMR
    18. A restore task may remain in a finalized state in the disaster recovery domain even after the client restores successfully
      1.  
        Communication between the master server and the client may fail even if the client has a valid host ID-based certificate
    19.  
      Automatic boot may fail for HP-UX after a restore
    20.  
      Prepare to Restore may not work for a Solaris client
    21.  
      Use of Virtual Instance Converter (VIC) hosts on Windows (x64) having NetBackup 8.1 is not supported for NetBackup 8.0 and earlier clients
    22.  
      PTR or PTD failure because of boot server version mismatch after upgrade
    23.  
      Error messages for prepare to restore, prepare to discover, and the bmrprep command with reference to secure communication in BMR
  11. Creating virtual machine from client backup
    1.  
      About creating virtual machine from backup
    2.  
      BMR physical to virtual machine creation benefits and use cases
    3.  
      Deployment diagram for virtual machine creation
    4.  
      Client-VM conversion process flow
    5.  
      Pre-requisites to create VM creation from backup
    6. Virtual machine creation from backup
      1.  
        Virtual Machine Conversion Clients
      2.  
        Converting client backup to VM
      3.  
        Virtual Machine Options
      4.  
        Virtual machine conversion storage destination
      5.  
        Network connection selections
      6.  
        Virtual machine conversion summary
      7.  
        Direct Virtual Machine (VM) conversion (physical to virtual) tasks performed after the restore is complete
      8.  
        Virtual Machine Conversion Tasks
      9.  
        Restore Task Properties
      10.  
        Creating custom configurations
    7.  
      Virtual Machine Creation CLIs
  12. Monitoring Bare Metal Restore Activity
    1.  
      Monitoring BMR restore tasks
    2.  
      Monitoring backup jobs
    3.  
      Monitoring VM Creation jobs
    4. BMR logs
      1.  
        BMR logging originator IDs
      2.  
        Commands to manage unified logging and log files
      3.  
        BMR restore logs
  13. Appendix A. NetBackup BMR related appendices
    1. Network services configurations on BMR boot Server
      1.  
        Common UNIX network configuration
      2.  
        Red Hat Enterprise Linux network configuration
      3.  
        SUSE Linux Network configuration
      4. Solaris Network configuration
        1.  
          Network boot service configuration for Solaris version 10
        2.  
          Network boot service configuration for Solaris version 11.0 and later
      5.  
        HP-UX and AIX NW configuration
      6.  
        Windows Network configuration
    2.  
      About the support for Linux native multipath in BMR
    3.  
      BMR support for multi-pathing environment
    4.  
      BMR multipath matrix
    5.  
      BMR support for virtual environment
    6.  
      BMR Direct VM conversion support matrix
    7.  
      About ZFS storage pool support
    8.  
      Solaris zone recovery support
    9. BMR client recovery to other NetBackup Domain using Auto Image Replication
      1.  
        Adding a host in the host database of the DR domain
    10.  
      Secure communication compatibility matrices for BMR for NetBackup 8.1.1 and later releases

Error messages for prepare to restore, prepare to discover, and the bmrprep command with reference to secure communication in BMR

This section provides information that helps you with troubleshooting the errors that you may encounter while you perform prepare to restore (PTR) or prepare to discover (PTD) operations and while you use the bmrprep command.

Table: Error messages with respect to secure communication in BMR

Error message

Description

Add an appropriate host entry or host mapping for <Name of the host> and retry the operation.

To restore BMR configurations of NetBackup 8.1.1 and later, a valid host ID to host name mapping for the selected host name must be present.

Use the nbhostmgmt command for adding a host entry in the host database or for host ID to host name mappings.

For more information about the nbhostmgmt command refer NetBackup Command Reference Guide

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.DOC5332

Scenario 1: The host that you intend to restore may have multiple host names associated with it or it may be referred by short name or FQDN in different contexts. If any of those host names have an entry in the host ID to host name mappings database, you need to add a mapping for it with the host name that you intend to restore using the nbhostmgmt -add command to add a new mapping to an existing host entry.

such as short name, FQDN and so on

Scenario 2: If none of the host names associated with the host that you intend to restore have entries in the host ID to host name mappings database, you need to add the required host entry in the host database. This may occur in a BMR AIR setup.

See Adding a host in the host database of the DR domain.

Shared Resource Tree version <Version> is incompatible with client configuration version <Version>. .

To restore BMR configurations of NetBackup 8.0 or earlier, you must use Shared Resource Tree (SRT) with NetBackup client version of 8.0 or earlier installed in the SRT.

Shared Resource Tree (SRTs) with NetBackup 8.1.1 or later installed in them are not supported for restoring BMR configurations of NetBackup 8.0 or earlier.

Similarly, to restore BMR configurations of NetBackup 8.1.1 or later, you must use Shared Resource Tree (SRT) with NetBackup client version of 8.1.1 or later installed in the SRT.

The usual conditions that the SRT version is greater than or equal to the BMR configuration version apply.

Reset the host attributes for <Name of the host> and retry the operation.

To restore BMR configurations of NetBackup 8.0 or earlier for a host that is known to the master as communicating securely (For Example: NetBackup 8.1 and above hosts), you must reset the host for a successful communication.

For more information about resetting host attributes, refer NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.DOC5332

Reset host attributes for all hosts with the mapping name <Mapping Name> and retry the operation.

A host name may be associated with multiple host IDs.

For example: In a clustered environment.

Some or all of those hosts may be known to the master as communicating securely (For Example: NetBackup 8.1 and above hosts). For restoring BMR configurations of NetBackup 8.0 or earlier for such hosts, you must reset all of those hosts for successful communication.

For more information about resetting host attributes, refer NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.DOC5332

Configuration version of the specified host is 8.1, which is not supported by BMR.

Restoring BMR configurations of NetBackup 8.1 version is not supported.

Set the 'autoreissue' parameter for one of the host IDs of <Name of the host> and retry the operation.

A host name may be associated with multiple host IDs.

For example: In a clustered environment.

In such scenarios, you must set the autoreissue parameter for only one of the host IDs which you intend to restore.

For more information about the host mapping, refer to the nbhostmgmt command in the NetBackup Command Reference Guide

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.DOC5332

For more information about the autoreissue parameter, refer NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.DOC5332

Authorization failed. A web login is required. Run the <Command Name> command to log in.

For a successful execution of bmrprep command, a web login is required. Perform a web login using the bpnbat command before you execute bmrprep command

For more information about the bpnbat command, refer to the bpnbat command in the NetBackup Command Reference Guide

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.DOC5332

BMR client <Name of the client> is ready to be restored. This operation is valid for a limited period of time. The default is 48 hours. Boot the client to proceed.

To restore BMR configurations of NetBackup 8.1.1 and later, you are provided with a limited period of time. The default is 48 hours.

You can edit or update the default validity of 48 hours to the desired value using web.conf file.

For more information about the autoreissue validity configuration setting, refer to the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.DOC5332

Note:

This is not a requirement to restore BMR configurations of NetBackup 8.0 and earlier versions.

BMR client <Name of the client> is ready to be discovered. This operation is valid for a limited period of time. The default is 48 hours. Boot the client to proceed.

To discover BMR configurations of NetBackup 8.1.1 and later, you are provided with a limited period of time. The default is 48 hours.

You can edit or update the default validity of 48 hours to the desired value using web.conf file.

For more information about the autoreissue validity configuration setting, refer to the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.DOC5332

Note:

This is not a requirement to restore BMR configurations of NetBackup 8.0 and earlier versions.

The specified IP address <IP address> is not associated with the host name <Name of the host>. Specify an appropriate IP address for successful Prepare To Discover operation.

If the IP address that you have specified during Prepare to Discover (PTD) operation for a particular BMR client is not associated with that client, the PTD operation fails. You must ensure that you have entered the appropriate IP address.

The Prepare To Discover operation is not successful, because the specified IP address cannot be resolved.

If the IP address that you have specified during Prepare to Discover (PTD) operation cannot be resolved, the PTD operation fails. You must ensure that you have entered the appropriate IP address.