NetVault Bare Metal Recovery 12.4 - User Guide for Plug-ins

When you select a saveset, the following details are displayed in the Saveset Information area: Job ID, job title, server name, client name, plug-in name, saveset date and time, retirement setting, Incremental Backup or not, Archive or not, saveset size, and snapshot-based backup or not.

When the NetVault Backup Client is displayed in the tree, double-click it to reveal the data included in the DR image.

Locate the “linuxboot.iso” file, and select it for recovery.


	IMPORTANT: Only include the “linuxboot.iso” file in this recovery job. Any other items selected for recovery during this procedure are not successfully restored.

Click Next.

Finalizing and submitting a restore with Plug-in Live Client for Linux

The final steps include setting additional options on the Schedule, Source Options, and Advanced Options pages, submitting the job, and monitoring the progress through the Job Status and View Logs pages. These pages and options are common to all NetVault Backup Plug-ins. For more information, see the Quest NetVault Backup Administrator’s Guide.

In Job Name, specify a name for the job.

Assign a descriptive name that lets you easily identify the job when monitoring its progress. The job name can contain alphanumeric and non-alphanumeric characters, but it cannot include non-English characters. A maximum of 40 characters is recommended.

In the Target Client list, select the NetVault Backup Server as the target for the restore.


	TIP: You can also click Choose, and then locate and select the applicable client in the Choose the Target Client dialog box.

Leave all other options available on the Schedule, Source Options, and Advanced Options lists at their default settings.

Click Save or Save & Submit, whichever is applicable.

You can monitor progress on the Job Status page and view the logs on the View Logs page. For more information, see the Quest NetVault Backup Administrator’s Guide.

The file is recovered to …/tmp directory on the NetVault Backup Server, where … represents the NetVault Backup installation directory.


	IMPORTANT: Recovery of the Boot Image information, regardless of the Linux NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client it was performed from, creates a CD-creation file entitled “linuxboot.iso” in the …/tmp directory. If Boot Image information is recovered from an additional Linux NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client using these steps, its “linuxboot.iso” file is restored and overwrites any file of the same name in this directory without warning. Therefore, Quest recommends that you complete this process for a single Linux NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client, before you try to recover backed-up Boot Image information from an additional Linux NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client.

Insert a blank, writable CD into a CD writer that is accessible to the NetVault Backup Server.

Start the CD-generation software, access the “linuxboot.iso” file that resides in the directory named in Step 1, and create the CD using the necessary utilities within the CD-generation software.


	NOTE: As CD-generation software varies, no instruction is given here on how to start or administer its use. For complete instructions on generating a CD using an “.iso” CD creation file, see the relevant software’s documentation.

With the CD completed, remove it from the drive, and label it appropriately.

For example, assign a label corresponding to something specific about the target NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client, such as its OS-assigned name.


	IMPORTANT: Provided the hardware configuration in the target Linux NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client does not change, this CD can be saved for future use in booting the client for the recovery of future DR images recorded with this plug-in. However, if new networking hardware is implemented or the device driver files in the client machine change any time, the Boot Image data for the client must be backed up again and this procedure must be repeated to create a CD. The Boot CD is unable to load devices for which proper driver files are not incorporated in the Boot Image backup. Quest recommends that you test the boot media on the target Linux NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client for successful loading of all the devices during boot up process.

Recovering a DR image for use with Plug-in Live Client for Linux

The steps required to recover a DR image performed with the Plug-in Live Client for Linux vary based on how the data was originally managed during backup. The following topics cover the processes required to complete each of these steps.


	IMPORTANT: Plug-in Live Client for Linux version 4.0 cannot be used to restore data that was backed up using a previous version of the Plug-in Live Client. To recover pre-4.0 data, use the same version of the Plug-in Live Client for Linux that was used to back it up. The Plug-in Live Client for Linux can only process one restore at a time. The recovery process modifies some of the files. Original copies of the modified files are stored in: /storix/temp/storix_install