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  3. Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide
  5. Performing restores of SQL Server
  7. Configuring permissions for redirected restores
Veritas NetBackup™ for Microsoft SQL Server Administrator's Guide

Configuring permissions for redirected restores

Certain restore procedures or environments require that you configure permissions to allow a client to restore a backup that another client performed. See the Administrator's Guide, Volume I for complete details on redirected restores.

You must configure the master server for redirected restores if you want to redirect the restore of ClientA to ClientB.

You do not need to configure redirected restores for the following configurations:

  • Restore databases in a SQL Server cluster to any of the nodes in the cluster

  • Restore databases in an availability group to any of the nodes in the AG

  • Restore clustered databases in a multi-NIC environment across the private interface

Instead these environments require that you configure the mappings for distributed application restores. You also need to review the auto-discovered mappings for the hosts in your environment.

See Reviewing the auto-discovered mappings in Host Management.

See Configuring mappings for restores of a distributed application, cluster, or virtual machine .

To allow a specific client or host to perform a redirected restore

  1. On the master server, create an altnames file for each client or host that you want to have permissions to perform redirected restores.

    For example, to give HostB permissions to redirect a restore, create the following file:

    On Windows:

    install_path\NetBackup\db\altnames\HostB

    On UNIX:

    /usr/openv/netbackup/db/altnames/HostB

  2. In the altnames file, add the names of the hosts whose files the requesting client wants to restore.

    For example, assume that you want HostB to have permissions to redirect restores from HostA. Then add HostA to the HostB file.

To give a SQL Server host the permissions to restore backups in a multi-NIC environment

  1. Create an altnames file with the private name of the host, for example SQLHOST-NB.

    On Windows:

    install_path\NetBackup\db\altnames\SQLHOST1-NB

    On UNIX:

    /usr/openv/netbackup/db/altnames/SQLHOST1-NB

  2. In the altnames file, add the names of the hosts whose files the requesting client wants to restore.

    For example, assume that you want SQLHOST1-NB to have permissions to redirect restores from SQLHOST2-NB. Then add SQLHOST2-NB to the SQLHOST1-NB file.

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