Restoring storage groups from tape – HP Serveur lame HP ProLiant BL465c Gen8 User Manual

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6.

Back up the data of the secondary volume to a tape.

To back up the data, execute

EX_DRM_TAPE_BACKUP

on the backup server. In this example,

the drive containing the secondary volume is

E:

.

BKServer > EX_DRM_TAPE_BACKUP Operation_A -mount_pt E:

When you execute backup, information about this backup is registered in the backup catalog
with the new backup ID

0000000002

.

Restoring storage groups from tape

This section provides an example of restoring data that has been backed up to tape, and recovering
a storage group. This example restores the data from tape to a secondary volume, and then restores
(recovers) the data from the secondary volume to the primary volume by resynchronizing the volumes.
This example uses

Operation_A

as the operation ID.

To perform restoration of data from a VSS backup, the Protection Manager service must be running
on the backup server.

To restore a storage group:

1.

Check the backup ID of the backup data.

To check the backup ID of the backup data used to restore the data from tape to the secondary
volume, execute the

drmtapecat

command on the backup server.

BKServer >drmtapecat -hostname DBServer -l

BACKUP-ID ORIGINAL-ID HOSTNAME BACKUP-OBJECT INSTANCE SNAPSHOT TIME EXPIRATION TIME

BACKUP-MEDIA

0000000002 0000000001 DBServer MSEXCHANGE - 2002/06/01 17:45:36 PERMANENT

MEDIA1

:

:

When restoring a database or Information Store relating to a specific storage group by executing
the restoration command with the

-target

option specified, you must confirm the restoration

target. In this case, execute the

drmtapecat

command with the following options specified:

-o MSEXCHANGE

-backup_id

backup-ID

2.

Restore the backed up data from the tape to the secondary volume.

To restore the data, execute

EX_DRM_TAPE_RESTORE

on the backup server.

BKServer > EX_DRM_TAPE_RESTORE Operation_A -backup_id 0000000002

3.

Export backup information to temporary files.

To restore the data from the secondary volume to the primary volume, you must copy backup
information about the restore performed from the tape to the secondary volume. Copy this
information to the database server. To export the backup information to temporary files in the
temporary folder for extended commands, execute

EX_DRM_DB_EXPORT

.

BKServer > EX_DRM_DB_EXPORT Operation_A

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