BackBox H4.00 User Manual

Operations
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Recover the BackPak Catalog
For the replication provided by BackPak, refer to the separate manual BackPak
Catalog Sync Option. This chapter shows manual alternatives to the BackPak
Catalog Sync Option.
To recover the VOLUME* files, the Domain Manager should not be running. To that
end the EMS Extractor process BBEXT must be stopped.
To recover a version of VOLUME* from TMF dumps:
Run TMF RECOVER. If the dumps have been saved on virtual tapes, use the
Stand Alone Load panel in the user interface to mount the volume requested by
TMF.
To restore a backup done with the PAK utility, simply UNPAK VOLUME and VOLUME0.
Note that VOLUME0 is an alternate index, the option “MAP NAMES” should be used in
the UNPAK command. Ex:
UNPAK pak-file, $SYSTEM.BBOX.VOLUME*, MAP NAMES $*.*.* TO
$SYSTEM.BBOX2.VOLUME*, AUDITED, MYID, OPEN
To restore from a backup on virtual tape:
Note VOLUME0 is an alternate index, the option “MAP NAMES” should be used in the
restore command. Ex:
RESTORE =tapedef1, $SYSTEM.BBOX.VOLUME*, MAP NAMES $*.*.* TO
$SYSTEM.BBOX2.VOLUME*, AUDITED, MYID, OPEN
- Manually load the volume, by:
o Using the page Status of the BackPak GUI to locate the load
request and initiate the load
o Checking the completion of the restore in EMS; if an EMS message
states that the unload cannot be registered go to the Volume tab,
display the detail of the volume, click the Edit button, Reset the
current operation and click Update.
- Or, in last resort when there is no way to load manually as presented
above, use the Stand Alone Load panel in the BackBox interface to satisfy
the mount the volume requested by RESTORE. A typical case is, on old
Guardian systems, to boot the system from a SIT tape prepared on a
virtual volume; there is no BackPak Domain available to handle the load
request.
After the recovery of a catalog on another system, the restore jobs may fail
because the access to the virtual volumes was controlled by the Domain