Backup recovery

[jhingoor]

Hi guys,
I have taken full filesystem backup of 4 servers using sam... BACKUP and recovery tape.....now how do i restore tha data if our servers are shifted...also what else changes/needs to be backedup if we plan to change our site ....

Advance thanks........

[RAC_1]

If server you are going to restore on is different, then using SAM may not help, because through SAM it keeps records of backups it takes. you best bet would be running frecover on the tapes. (First just try with listing the tapes. read man pages for required options)

[jhingoor]

Hi RAC,
The backup restoration would be done on the same servers..but on different site....since the data that backed up was SAN MOUNTED....and also the san belongs to another company..we have to leave our present site.....for which we needed our data from them...to recover i just need to run frecover -r /dev/rmt/*.....right.....
But before that the same partions should be made availabe to us which were on san RIGHT????.......PLZZZZ HELP ME,,,,,,

[RAC_1]

It would help to have details about the options that they used for taking backups.
Check what options would give you listing of the data in tape. (i don't have system at hand at the moment)

[Steve Steel]

Hi

You always have options although an image of your previous setup is best

NOTE :If restoring a directory, `frecover' will not overwrite an existing
file unless the -o option is used.

Sometimes its nice to recover to a relative path or in a directory /tmp/recover.
To restore relatively, you go first to the directory with cd, and then
use the X or F option.

cd /tmp/local; /etc/frecover -xvXi /directory
(with directory tree path )
cd /tmp/local; /etc/frecover -xvFi /directory
(without path, only files names)


Steve Steel