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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section IX. Administering NetBackup
  4. Managing client backups and restores
  5. About client-redirected restores
  6. Allowing a single client to perform redirected restores
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Allowing a single client to perform redirected restores

The NetBackup administrator can permit a single client to restore the backups that belong to other clients.

To do so, create an altnames directory on the NetBackup master server where the policy that backed up the other client(s) resides. Place an empty peername file inside of the altnames directory where peername is the client to possess restore privileges.

  • On Windows:

    install_path\NetBackup\db\altnames\peername

  • On UNIX:

    /usr/openv/netbackup/db/altnames/peername

In this case, the requesting client (peername) can access the files that are backed up by another client. The NetBackup client name setting on peername must match the name of the other client.

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