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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide
  3. Troubleshooting
Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide

Troubleshooting

This section includes the following topics:
  • Problems booting from CD or DVD

  • Long restore times

  • Solaris media boot network parameters issue

  • How to recover client when BMR configuration is deleted accidentally

  • First boot after BMR restore fails on UNIX platforms

  • Client network based boot issue

  • Verify backup failure while recovering Windows client

  • The VM takes long time for booting after BMR Physical backup conversion to virtual machine is performed on 32-bit architecture Windows OS

  • BMR-enabled physical backup to Virtual Machine conversion job fails on Windows platform

  • Troubleshooting issues regarding creation of virtual machine from client backup

  • Many services on Solaris 11 and newer print warning messages during a system boot and during BMR first boot

  • Solaris Zone recovery on Solaris 11 and newer takes time to reconfigure after a BMR restore during first boot

  • A Solaris BMR restore operation fails if the text-installer package is not present in the customized AI ISO

  • The /boot partition must be on a separate partition for a multiple device-based OS configuration

  • Multiple error messages might be displayed during the first boot after the restoration of a client with ZFS storage pools

  • BMR may not format or clear the ZFS metadata

  • Specifying the short name of the client to protect with Auto Image Replication and BMR

  • A restore task may remain in a finalized state in the disaster recovery domain even after the client restores successfully

  • Automatic boot may fail for HP-UX after a restore

  • Prepare to Restore may not work for a Solaris client

  • Use of Virtual Instance Converter (VIC) hosts on Windows (x64) having NetBackup 8.1 is not supported for NetBackup 8.0

  • PTR or PTD failure because of boot server version mismatch after upgrade

  • Error messages for prepare to restore, prepare to discover, and the bmrprep command with reference to secure communication in BMR

  • Media restore of Solaris x86 11.2 or later clients may prompt for maintenance mode user name and password

  • Discovery task may remain in Finalizing state after client PTD task completes successfully

  • BMR restore task may remain in Finalizing state after the client is restored successfully

  • Shared Resource Tree (SRT) creation fails with an error after BMR restore if a backup operation was initiated on the boot server and client while the SRT creation was in progress

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