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MMRECOV(8)							    MMRECOV(8)

NAME
       mmrecov - recover a NetWorker media index

SYNOPSIS
       mmrecov [ -q | -v ]

DESCRIPTION
       The  mmrecov command is used in recovering from the loss of a NetWorker
       server's critical files.	 mmrecov restores  the	media  index  and  the
       server's	 resource  files.   Typical  events causing such disasters are
       accidental removal of these files by a user or a disk crash on the Net‐
       Worker  server  itself.	 See  nsr_crash(8) for a discussion of general
       issues and procedures for NetWorker client and server crash recovery if
       you are running NetWorker for UNIX.

       mmrecov	is  used  to recover the NetWorker server's media database and
       resource files from the media (backup tapes or disks)  when  the	 media
       database	 or  resource files have been lost or damaged.	Note that this
       command overwrites the server's existing media index.  The mmrecov com‐
       mand is not used to recover NetWorker clients' online indexes; you must
       use the nsrck(8) command for this purpose.

       The NetWorker system must be fully installed and	 correctly  configured
       prior to using this command.  If any of the NetWorker software is lost,
       re-install NetWorker from the distribution files before you  run	 mmre‐
       cov.   Use  the	same  release of NetWorker, and install it in the same
       location as it was before the software was lost.

       The mmrecov program extracts the contents  of  a	 bootstrap  save  set,
       which  contains	the  media  index and resource files.  Once mmrecov is
       done running, you shut the NetWorker server down,  move	the  recovered
       resource	 files into place, and restart the server.  At this point, the
       file indexes for the server and client may be restored by using nsrck.

       When mmrecov is started, it will ask for	 the  device  from  which  the
       bootstrap  save set will be extracted.  Next, it will ask for the boot‐
       strap save set identifier.  This number is found in the	fourth	column
       (labeled	 ssid)	of  the	 last  line of the bootstrap information sheet
       printed by savegrp and mminfo -B, an example of which is shown below:

       Jun 17  22:21 1992  mars's NetWorker bootstrap information Page 1

	  date	  time	  level	      ssid  file  record   volume
	6/14/92 23:46:13   full	  17826163    48       0   mars.1
	6/15/92 22:45:15      9	  17836325    87       0   mars.2
	6/16/92 22:50:34      9	  17846505   134       0   mars.2 mars.3
	6/17/92 22:20:25      9	  17851237    52       0   mars.3

       In the example above, the ssid of the most recent bootstrap save set is
       `17851237'.   If	 you are cloning save sets, your bootstrap save set is
       also cloned, and you need to use the second to last save set.  See  the
       RECOVERING FROM CLONE MEDIA section for an example of boostrap informa‐
       tion with cloned save sets.

       Next, mmrecov prompts for the file and record location of the bootstrap
       save  set.   Both  values  may  default	to zero if they are not known.
       Note, however, that specifying the correct file and record numbers will
       allow  NetWorker	 to  more  quickly locate the bootstrap save set.  The
       file and record locations are the fifth and sixth columns of the	 boot‐
       strap information sheet.	 In the example above, the values for the file
       and record locations are 52 and 0, respectively.	 Finally, mmrecov will
       prompt  that  the volume (`mars.3' in the example above) containing the
       selected bootstrap save set be inserted into the specified device.  The
       ssid,  file  location, record location, and the physical volume must be
       determined by the user from the printed sheet, since mmrecov has no way
       of determining this information.	 On the other hand, if the volume con‐
       taining the bootstrap is not known, the -B option of scanner(8) can  be
       used to determine the file and record locations.

       If  the	bootstrap save set spans more than one volume, multiple volume
       names are printed.  The order printed is the order required by mmrecov.
       In  the example above, the third save set produced on 6/16/92 begins on
       volume `mars.2' and spans to volume `mars.3'.  If a bootstrap save  set
       spans volumes, mmrecov will prompt for the name of the device where the
       next volume has been loaded when an end-of-volume occurs.   The	volume
       is then scanned, and the bootstrap save set extracted.

       After the volume scan completes, mmrecov will complete.	At this point,
       if your original server resource files were lost, you  must  shut  down
       the  NetWorker  server,	move  the  new	resource files into place, and
       restart the NetWorker server.  Now the indexes can be recovered.

       In order to recover the indexes for the server and client, you must run
       nsrck -L7.   This  command  will	 reconstruct complete indexes from the
       save sets generated by the server's save schedule.  Since the save sets
       may  be spread across multiple volumes, NetWorker Management Console or
       nsrwatch(8) should  be  run,  and  the  volumes	mounted	 as  they  are
       requested.

       When  nsrck  completes,	the  message  "completed recovery of index for
       client '<client-name>'" is displayed.  Once a NetWorker client's	 index
       is recovered, that client can start recovering its files using recover.
       Note that it is not necessary for the server's  index  to  be  restored
       before the client indexes may be restored.

       As  stated  earlier,  the NetWorker resource files are saved as part of
       the bootstrap save set.	If your resource files were also deleted,  you
       may  quickly  replace them by copying or moving them from /nsr/res.R to
       /nsr/res.  Before restoring them to /nsr/res, the daemons must be  shut
       down (see nsr_shutdown(8)).

       Sometimes  it  is neccessary to recover the NetWorker server onto a new
       machine, for example,  after  a	major  hardware	 failure.   When  this
       occurs,	the  NetWorker	Licensing software will detect the move.  Once
       the NetWorker server has been moved to a new machine, it	 must  be  re-
       registered  with	 Customer  Support  within 15 days of the move, or the
       server will disable itself.  After disabling itself, you will  only  be
       able to recover files; new backups cannot be performed until the server
       is re-registered.  Notifications will be sent by the  NSR  Registration
       notification, warning of the need to re-register the product.

RECOVERING FROM CLONE MEDIA
       If  you	are  running  mmrecov with clone media only, for example, at a
       remote site, you will need to perform the  recovery  using  a  slightly
       different  method.   When selecting the bootstrap identifier, make sure
       that you are using the information associated with the cloned save set:
       the last save set listed in the bootstrap output.  Consider the follow‐
       ing list of save sets:

       Jun 17  22:21 1996  mars's NetWorker bootstrap information Page 1

	  date	  time	  level	      ssid  file  record   volume
	6/14/96 23:46:13   full	  17826163    48       0   mars.1
	6/14/96 23:46:13   full	  17826163    12       0   mars_c.1
	6/15/96 22:45:15      9	  17836325    87       0   mars.2
	6/15/96 22:45:15      9	  17836325    24       0   mars_c.2
	6/17/96 22:20:25      9	  17851237    52       0   mars.3
	6/17/96 22:20:25      9	  17851237     6       0   mars_c.3

       In the example above, the ssid of the most recent bootstrap save set is
       `17851237'.  The cloned save set resides on mars_c.3 and the values for
       the file and record locations are 6 and 0, respectively.

       If you lost your resource files and need to use the ones restored  from
       mmrecov,	 the  NetWorker	 server	 needs to be shut down so that you can
       replace the installation resource files with your recovered ones.

       Once the original resource files are in	place,	the  NetWorker	server
       should  be  restarted.	After  it  is  restarted,  you may recover the
       indexes for the server and clients by issuing the  nsrck	 -L7  command.
       This  command  queries  the  media  database  for the index backups and
       restores the indexes for the server and each client.  If all clone vol‐
       umes  needed  are  online  when the index recovery proceeds, nsrck will
       complete on its own.

       If some of the volumes are not  online,	then  nsrck  will  attempt  to
       recover	the  index  from  the original volume it was backed up to, and
       therefore request the original media.  In the example bootstrap	output
       above,  mars_c.1	 and mars_c.3 would both need to be online.  If volume
       mars_c.3 was the only volume online,  then  nsrck  would	 also  request
       mars.1.	To finish recovering the server's index in this case, you need
       to perform the following steps:

       1.     Note what volumes are needed for recovery and delete  them  from
	      the media database.  NetWorker Management Console or nsrwatch(8)
	      lists the volumes needed for recovery in	the  Pending  messages
	      panel.   Use  NetWorker Management Console or nsrmm(8) to delete
	      the volumes from the media database.

	      Given the scenario in the example above where only mars_c.3  was
	      mounted, we would have to delete mars.1 from the media database,
	      for example, nsrmm  -d mars.1.

       2.     Restart the server to terminate the index recovery in progress.

	      Use nsr_shutdown(8) to bring the server down.   Run  nsrd(8)  to
	      start the server again.

       3.     Recover the server's index by using nsrck	 -L7 servername.

       When  nsrck  completes,	the message "The index is now fully recovered"
       appears.

OPTIONS
       -q     Quiet.  Displays only error messages.

       -v     Verbose.	Generates debugging information.

FILES
       /nsr   If this was a symbolic link when the bootstrap save set was cre‐
	      ated,  it needs to be re-created manually prior to running mmre‐
	      cov.

       /nsr/res
	      This directory and its contents are saved as part of  the	 boot‐
	      strap  save  set.	  mmrecov  restores  this  directory, and then
	      renames it to /nsr/res.R.	 The original directory is temporarily
	      renamed  to  /nsr/res.org	 while the bootstrap save set is being
	      recovered.

       /nsr/mm/mmvolume
	      The NetWorker server's media index saved as part	of  the	 boot‐
	      strap save set, and unconditionally recovered by mmrecov.

BUGS
       The name mmrecov is misleading; as a result, mmrecov is often used when
       it  is	not   needed.	 A   name   like   "recover_server_media_data‐
       base_or_resource_files_when_missing"  is	 more  descriptive.  Note that
       any part of the bootstrap save set contents are recoverable using  nor‐
       mal  recover  procedures	 provided  that	 the  server's	on-line index,
       resource files, and media index are intact.

       To recover files that are not in the on-line file index	(for  example,
       files  saved  after  the	 last run of savegrp), scanner must be used to
       rebuild the media and on-line file indexes from	the  contents  of  the
       volumes	generated  between the time of the last run of savegrp and the
       loss of the original index.

SEE ALSO
       mminfo(8), nsr_crash(8), nsr(8), nsrck(8), nsrd(8), nsr_client(5),
       nsr_schedule(5), nsr_shutdown(8), recover(8), save(8), savefs(8),
       savegrp(8), scanner(8), nsrindexasm(8), nsrmm(8), nsrmmdbdasm(8),
       nsrwatch(8), nsr_getdate(3)

NetWorker 7.3.2			  Aug 23, 06			    MMRECOV(8)
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