HI Folks
Im thinking this is a NB bug but anyway theres a lot of folks in the forum with experience that may be able to shed some light.
Scenario: Sol10 Sparc master, NB7504.
Some other media servers, including a Windows box in the DR site.
Also at DR site: Sol10 x86 DR master server, shut down most of the time.
Previously tested: catalog written by Sol10 sparc master recovered onto Sol10 x86 master in DR. No problems.
Both masters have the same name.
However as above I've got a media server (the Windows box) at my DR site and I've configged a policy to write the catalog to that. And now I'm testing it.
I've got my override to tell it that it needs to not use the original media server: FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER = <originalwindowsmediaserver> Solx86master
And the restore runs almost the whole way through...I get my catalog...clean as a whistle.
But right at the end I have issues:
It wont restore anything from /usr/openv/db/staging eg BMRDB, BMRDATA , (the kind of stuff you need at DR!) , theres maybe 20 files it refuses to deal with.
Then it gives error 2850 and thence
Failed to recover NBDB on <server> (5)
Thence unable to freeze media 000039 server name not found in Netbackup config (254)
If I repeat the exercise the result is slightly different:
Immediately the DR recovery tells me some utterly confusing message about 'these files will not be restored because they are not present when the backup- was done" (which is incorrect) then again it lists the contents of .../db/staging as it did the first attempt saying
.../staging/BMRDB.db is not in the true image list.Skipping.
etc
It then recovers the catalog and then repeats the business of everything in .../db/staging were not restored.
My feeling is that whilst it does the restore, it restores bp.conf, and when it has done that, it no longer has the FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER entry for the media servers I no longer have..so that act of the restore causes the restore of the staging data to fail.
bp.conf has changed, it is the one from the master, timestamp 15:25 and the error occurs at...you guessed it:15:25:43
So I need FORCE_ etc in the original bp.conf on the backup, BUT I dont want to do that when restoring, only in DR.I want to restore using the server that did the backup for speed.
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance,Jim