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
Mapping volumes
Use the following procedures to map volumes from the protected client to the restore configuration.
To initiate mapping for individual elements
- In the Table View or Disk View, right-click the element in the Original Volume Layout window.
- Choose the appropriate map option on the shortcut menu (the map options are context-sensitive ).
The Mapping Wizard starts with one of the following contexts, as appropriate:
Map
The Mapping Wizard starts for the selected element (except main element disk groups, disks, volumes, volume groups, and so on).
Map Volume
The Volume Mapping Wizard appears.
Map Volume Group
The Volume Group Mapping Wizard appears.
Map Disk
If the element is a disk in a disk group or a volume group, the disk group or volume group wizard appears. Then the volume mapping wizard for each volume appears (the required properties are set). The Disk Mapping Wizard appears if the element is as follows:
A disk that is not in a disk group
Not part of a volume group (AIX)
None of its volumes span other disks (mirrors, stripes).
Then all the volumes and the file systems are populated into the target disk. The mapped state is set for both source elements and target elements (disks, volumes, and file systems)
Map Disk Group
The Disk Group Mapping Wizard appears.
To unmap an element
- In the Table View or Disk View, right-click the element you want to unmap in the New Volume Layout window.
- Click the unmap option on the shortcut menu. The unmap options are context-sensitive and include Unmap, Unmap Disk, Unmap Volume, and others.
The element is unmapped, and the values of used and free space change accordingly.
To change the system volume size on Windows
- In the Table View or Disk View, right-click the volume in the New Volume Layout window.
- Click Change Size on the shortcut menu.
- In the Windows System Volume Size Change dialog box, change the size of the volume.
- Change the size of the volume.
To restrict a disk or remove restriction
- In the Table View or Disk View, right-click the disk in the New Volume Layout window.
- Click either Restrict or Remove Restriction on the shortcut menu to specify the following:
Restrict prevents a disk to be used as a target for mapping. Also, it is not formatted, and the volume groups or volumes on it are not created or restored.
Remove Restriction removes the restriction so the disk can be used as a target. If the disk is mapped, it is formatted and its volumes and volume groups are created and restored.
To promote a disk to dynamic on Windows
- In the Table View or Disk View, right-click the disk in the New Volume Layout window.
- Click Promote to Dynamic on the shortcut menu.
To add or remove a Windows system mirror
- If the disk is a basic disk, promote it to a dynamic disk
- In the Table View or Disk View, right-click the element in the New Volume Layout window.
- Click either Add Mirror or Remove Mirror on the shortcut menu.
- If you add a mirror, in the Windows Add Mirror to System Volume dialog box, select the disk to use for the mirror.
- If you add a mirror, select the disk to use for the mirror.