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
- 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
Restoring an HP-UX client with media boot
Note:
Review the NetBackup 8.1.1 secure communication compatibility support matrix for BMR table to know more about the supported master, boot server, client, and SRT versions for Linux, Windows, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX environments. See Secure communication compatibility matrices for BMR for NetBackup 8.1.1 and later releases.
Note:
For clients with NetBackup 8.1.1 and later versions installed, NetBackup does not support BMR restore operations in AIX and HP-UX environments. However, BMR restore operations are supported in Linux, Windows, and Solaris environments.
Note:
If NetBackup access management is used in your environment, you must provide the appropriate credentials when prompted so that NetBackup can restore the client files.
To media boot an HP-UX client, do the following.
To restore an HP-UX PA client with media boot
- Prepare to restore the client using the SRT you created on the bootable media.
- Insert the bootable CD or bootable DVD into the CD-ROM drive.
- Boot the client to restore.
- When you are prompted, press the Space bar to stop the normal boot process.
- Search for the location and name of the CD-ROM drive.
The search utility may be useful to determine this information.
- Find the CD-ROM drive from the list of devices and boot the computer using that device with the boot command.
- In response to the Interact with IPL prompt, type No.
- In response to the Run a Recovery Shell prompt, type Yes.
- In response to the Start Networking prompt, type Yes.
- In response to the Choose the Network Interface prompt, type the default LAN device to boot from.
You must enter the default LAN because the firmware uses this address for booting from the Ignite server. Note that any network interface card can be used for accessing the SRT or backups, but the default LAN must be used for booting.
Enter the following information when prompted:
Hostname
IP address
Default gateway
Subnet mask
- At the Is this network information temporary prompt, type No.
- Use the arrow key to scroll to OK and press Enter.
- The restore begins.
Enter the required information at the following BMR process prompts:
Client name (for a discovery boot, enter the client's name as it appears in the Tasks view from the prepare-to-discover operation)
NetBackup master server name
NetBackup master server IP address
NetBackup master server gateway IP address
To restore an HP-UX IA client with media boot
- Prepare to restore the client using the SRT you created on the bootable media.
- Insert the bootable CD or bootable DVD into the CD-ROM drive.
- Boot the client to restore.
- In response to the Run a Recovery Shell prompt, type Yes.
- In response to the Start Networking prompt, type Yes.
- In response to the Choose the Network Interface prompt, type the default LAN device to boot from.
You must enter the default LAN because the firmware uses this address for booting from the Ignite server. Note that any network interface card can be used for accessing the SRT or backups, but the default LAN must be used for booting.
Enter the following information when prompted:
Hostname
IP address
Default gateway
Subnet mask
- At the Is this network information temporary prompt, type No.
- Use the arrow key to scroll to OK and press Enter.
- The restore begins.
Enter the required information at the following BMR process prompts:
Client name (for a discovery boot, enter the client's name as it appears in the Tasks view from the prepare-to-discover operation)
NetBackup master server name
NetBackup master server IP address
NetBackup master server gateway IP address
