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  2. NetBackup™ in Highly Available Environments Administrator's Guide
  3. NetBackup protection against single points of failure
  4. Protecting against component failures
  5. Media server failures
  6. Restoring tape backups using an alternative media server
NetBackup™ in Highly Available Environments Administrator's Guide

Restoring tape backups using an alternative media server

When you restore files, NetBackup expects to use the same media server and client that it used for the original backup. However, for disaster recovery you use a different media server to restore the backup to a different client. The media servers and clients at the disaster recovery site are likely to have different names from those at the main site.

NetBackup lets you configure failover restore media servers to handle restores in the event that the original media server is unavailable.

To configure failover restore media servers (Windows)

  1. Sign in to the primary server.
  2. On the left, click Hosts > Host properties.
  3. Select the primary server and click Connect.
  4. Select the primary server and click Edit primary server.
  5. Click Restore failover.
  6. Click Add to add a media server.

To configure the failover restore media servers (UNIX)

  1. Sign in to the primary server.
  2. In the bp.conf file, create an entry FAILOVER_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER.

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