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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide
  3. Restoring clients
  4. About restoring BMR clients using network boot
Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide

About restoring BMR clients using network boot

Note:

Review the secure communication compatibility support matrix for BMR table to know more about the supported master, boot server, client, and SRT versions for Linux, Windows, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX environments. See Secure communication compatibility matrices for BMR for NetBackup 8.1.1 and later releases.

Use these procedures for a standard restore (also known as a self restore, which is a restore to the same system and disks).

Note:

If NetBackup access control management is used in your environment, you must provide the appropriate credentials when prompted so that NetBackup can restore the client files. To restore BMR Windows or UNIX client, you MUST perform bpnbat -addmachine on master server before restoring the client.

Use the bpnbat -ShowMachines command on the master server to view the name of the added machine.

To restore using media boot requires that you first create bootable media.

Refer sections on creating boot media.

Before you do a standard restore, you must run the prepare to restore operation using the current, saved configuration.

See Preparing a client for restore.

The procedure for restoring the client system depends on the manufacturer and mode.

See Restoring an AIX client with network boot.

See Restoring a Solaris client with network boot.

See Restoring a HP-UX client with network boot.

See Restoring a Linux client with network boot.

See Restoring a Windows client with network boot.

Other information about restoring clients is available.

See About performing complete backups.

See About performing a full backup after a restore.

See Ensuring successful backups.

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About external procedures

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