Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide
- Introducing Bare Metal Restore
- Configuring BMR
- Protecting clients
- Setting up restore environments
- Shared resource trees
- About 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
- Enabling or disabling SRT exclusive use
- Repairing a damaged shared resource tree
- Breaking a stale shared resource tree lock
- Managing boot media
- Restoring clients
- BMR restore process
- Preparing a client for restore
- BMR disk recovery behavior
- About restoring BMR clients using network boot
- About restoring BMR clients using media boot
- Generic BMR Restore
- Generic Discovery of Hardware
- About restoring to a specific point in time
- About restoring to dissimilar disks
- Restoring to a dissimilar system
- About dissimilar system restore
- About discovering the configuration of the new system
- Creating an editable DSR configuration
- About adding NIC and MSD drivers
- About changing network interfaces
- About mapping disks in the restore configuration
- About creating boot media
- About restoring the client
- Logging on for the first time after system restore
- About restoring NetBackup media servers
- About restoring BMR boot servers
- About external procedures
- External procedure points and names
- About managing external procedures
- Specifying external procedures
- About external procedure data transfer
- About interaction with external procedures
- External procedure logging examples
- External procedure operational states
- About external procedure exit codes
- About external procedure error handling
- About external procedure environment variables
- About SAN (storage area network) support
- About multiple network interface support
- Port usage during restores
- Managing Windows drivers packages
- Managing clients and configurations
- About clients and configurations
- Copying a configuration
- Discovering a configuration
- Modifying a configuration
- Deleting a configuration
- Deleting a client
- Client configuration properties
- Managing BMR boot servers
- Troubleshooting
- Problems booting from CD or DVD
- Long restore times
- Solaris media boot network parameters issue
- How to recover client when BMR configuration is deleted accidentally
- First boot after BMR restore fails on UNIX platforms
- Client network based boot issue
- Verify backup failure while recovering Windows client
- The VM takes long time for booting after BMR Physical backup conversion to virtual machine is performed on 32-bit architecture Windows OS
- BMR-enabled physical backup to Virtual Machine conversion job fails on Windows platform
- Troubleshooting issues regarding creation of virtual machine from client backup
- Many services on Solaris 11 and newer print warning messages during a system boot and during BMR first boot
- Solaris Zone recovery on Solaris 11 and newer takes time to reconfigure after a BMR restore during first boot
- A Solaris BMR restore operation fails if the text-installer package is not present in the customized AI ISO
- The /boot partition must be on a separate partition for a multiple device-based OS configuration
- Multiple error messages might be displayed during the first boot after the restoration of a client with ZFS storage pools
- BMR may not format or clear the ZFS metadata
- Specifying the short name of the client to protect with Auto Image Replication and BMR
- A restore task may remain in a finalized state in the disaster recovery domain even after the client restores successfully
- Automatic boot may fail for HP-UX after a restore
- Prepare to Restore may not work for a Solaris client
- Use of Virtual Instance Converter (VIC) hosts on Windows (x64) having NetBackup 8.1 is not supported for NetBackup 8.0 and earlier clients
- PTR or PTD failure because of boot server version mismatch after upgrade
- Error messages for prepare to restore, prepare to discover, and the bmrprep command with reference to secure communication in BMR
- Media restore of Solaris x86 11.2 or later clients may prompt for maintenance mode user name and password
- Discovery task may remain in Finalizing state after client PTD task completes successfully
- BMR restore task may remain in Finalizing state after the client is restored successfully
- Shared Resource Tree (SRT) creation fails with an error after BMR restore if a backup operation was initiated on the boot server and client while the SRT creation was in progress
- Creating virtual machine from client backup
- About creating virtual machine from backup
- BMR physical to virtual machine creation benefits and use cases
- Deployment diagram for virtual machine creation
- Client-VM conversion process flow
- Pre-requisites to create VM creation from backup
- Virtual machine creation from backup
- Virtual Machine Conversion Clients
- Converting client backup to VM
- Virtual Machine Options
- Virtual machine conversion storage destination
- Network connection selections
- Virtual machine conversion summary
- Direct Virtual Machine (VM) conversion (physical to virtual) tasks performed after the restore is complete
- Virtual Machine Conversion Tasks
- Restore Task Properties
- Creating custom configurations
- Virtual Machine Creation CLIs
- Monitoring Bare Metal Restore Activity
- Appendix A. NetBackup BMR related appendices
- Network services configurations on BMR boot Server
- About the support for Linux native multipath in BMR
- BMR support for multi-pathing environment
- BMR multipath matrix
- BMR support for virtual environment
- BMR Direct VM conversion support matrix
- About ZFS storage pool support
- Solaris zone recovery support
- BMR client recovery to other NetBackup Domain using Auto Image Replication
- Secure communication compatibility matrices for BMR for NetBackup 8.1.1 and later releases
Volumes views
The tree view (the left pane) shows the elements that are part of the disk layout. The elements in the tree change depending on the operating system of the client and the volume managers that are enabled. The tree view filters the details pane on the right. Select an element to display its attributes in the right pane and to filter other elements so they do not appear in the details pane.
The following indicators show an element's state throughout the mapping process:
Unmapped | The element is not mapped into the new configuration. |
Mapped | The element is mapped into the new configuration. |
Restricted | The disk is or was shared or manually restricted and cannot be used. |
The details pane on the right contains the following views:
The Table View shows the elements in an ordered list.
The Disk View shows how every disk is organized. A colored bar indicates the type of storage layout. For extended partitions, the primary partition color appears in the top color bar and the extended color in a bottom bar. For soft partitions, the top bar shows the underlying volume or slice on which the soft partition was created.
The Pool View shows how every file system and volume of ZFS pool is organized.
Note:
The pool view is added in NetBackup 7.5 to support ZFS-managed storage pools.
The Original Volume Layout (the top window) shows the volume layout and the source elements (disks, disk groups, or volumes) in the original system.
The amount of space that is used and the size of the disk appears. To view the properties for an element, right-click the element and select on the shortcut menu.
The New Volume Layout (the bottom window) shows the volume layout and elements for the target system. If you initialize the configuration with the layout from a discovered configuration, map elements from the Original Volume Layout to the New Volume Layout.
The following is the hierarchy for volume information:
A disk group, volume group, or disk set contains disks.
A disk contains volumes and partitions.
A volume or a partition contains file systems.
All volume managers may not use all of these logical concepts. For example, a Solaris slice does not belong to a disk group and has only a file system.
The following tables show the various elements in the tree view and what appears in the Table View tab and Disk View tab.
Table: Windows elements lists details about the selected Windows elements.
Table: Windows elements
Node | Appears in Table View | Appears in Disk View |
|---|---|---|
Windows Disk Management | Disk and volumes | Not applicable. |
Disks | All disks in the system. | All disks in the system. |
Volumes | All the volumes that are defined in the system, both managed or unmanaged. | Disks that contain volumes, regardless of which volume manager created them. |
One specific volume | Disks that the volume spans. | Disks that the volume spans. |
Table: Veritas Volume Manager and Storage Foundation for Windows elements lists details about the selected Veritas Volume Manager elements.
Table: Veritas Volume Manager and Storage Foundation for Windows elements
Selected element | Appears in Table View | Appears in Disk View |
|---|---|---|
Veritas Volume Manager | Disk groups, volume sets, and volumes. | Not applicable. |
Disk groups | Disk groups in the configuration. | Disks that are part of any disk group. |
A specific disk group | Disks that are part of that disk group. | Disks that are part of that disk group. |
Volumes | All the volumes that Volume Manager manages. | Disks that contain Volume Manager volumes (ordered by disk group) |
A specific volume | Disks that contain that volume. | Disks that contain that volume. |
Table: ZFS Manager elements lists details about the ZFS Manager elements.
Note:
In NetBackup 7.5, BMR can also restore Solaris 10 clients that have ZFS storage pool attached.
Table: ZFS Manager elements
Selected Element | Appears in Table View | Appears in Pool View | Appears in Disk View |
|---|---|---|---|
ZFS Manager | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable |
ZFS pools | Not applicable | Details of File systems and Volumes on each ZFS Pool | Details of disks associated with each ZFS Pool |
ZFS file systems | Not applicable | Pool space consumption details of each selected ZFS File system | Not applicable |
ZFS volumes | Not applicable | Pool space consumption details for each selected ZFS volume | Not applicable |
Table: Solaris Volume Manager elements lists details about the selected Solaris Volume Manager elements.
Table: Solaris Volume Manager elements
Selected Element | Appears in Table View | Appears in Disk View |
|---|---|---|
Solaris Volume Manager | Disk sets and volumes. | Not applicable. |
Disk sets | All named (nonlocal) sets. | Disks that are part of a named (nonlocal) set (ordered by disk set). |
A specific disk set | Disks that are part of that disk set. | Disks that are part of that disk set. |
Volumes | All SVM volumes. | Disks that have SVM volumes. |
A specific volume | Disks that include that volume. | Disks that include that volume. |
Table: Non-managed Solaris elements lists details about the selected non-managed Solaris elements.
Table: Non-managed Solaris elements
Selected element | Appears in Table View | Appears in Disk View |
|---|---|---|
Non-managed | Disks and partitions. | Not applicable. |
Disks | All disks that VxVM does not manage and all disks that are not in an SVM disk set. | All disks that VxVM does not manage and all disks that are not in an SVM disk set. |
Slices | All slices that are not managed and not used as SVM meta devices. | All disks that contain nonmanaged slices. |
Table: Empty disks elements lists details about the selected empty disks elements.
Table: Empty disks elements
Selected element | Appears in Table View | Appears in Disk View |
|---|---|---|
Empty disks | Disks that are not used. | Disks that are not used. |
Table: AIX and HP-UX logical volume manager elements lists details about the AIX and HP-UX logical volume manager elements.
Table: AIX and HP-UX logical volume manager elements
Selected Element | Appears in Table View | Appears in Disk View |
|---|---|---|
Logical volume manager | Volume groups and volumes. | Not applicable. |
Volume groups | Volume groups in the configuration. | Disks that are part of any volume group (ordered by volume group). |
A specific volume group | Disks that are part of that volume group. | Disks that are part of that volume group. |
Volumes | All the volumes that the LVM manages. | Disks that have LVM volumes. |
A specific volume | Disks that contain that volume. | Disks that contain that volume. |