Topics: Backup & restore, EMC Networker

Nsradmin
Here is how to retrieve client and group information from EMC Networker using nsradmin:

First, start nsradmin as user root:
# /bin/nsradmin -s networkerserver
(Note: replace "networkerserver" for the actual host name of your EMC Networker Server).

To select information of a specific client, for example "testserver", type:
nsradmin> print type: nsr client; name: testserver
You can furthur limit the attributes that you're seeing, by using the show sub-command. For
example if you only wish to see the save set and the group, type:
nsradmin> show save set
nsradmin> show group
nsradmin> show name
nsradmin> print type: nsr client; name: testserver
name: testserver.domain.com;
group: aixprod;
save set: /, /usr, /var, /tmp, /home, /opt, /roothome;
If you wish to retrieve information regarding a group, type:
nsradmin> show
Will show all attributes
nsradmin> print type: nsr group; name: aixprod
If you like to get more information about the types you can print information of, type:
nsradmin> types
Topics: Backup & restore, EMC, EMC Networker
Restart Networker
This is how to stop EMC Networker:
# /bin/nsr_shutdown
And this is how you start it (taken from /etc/inittab):
# echo "sh /etc/rc.nsr" | at now
Topics: Backup & restore, EMC, EMC Networker
EMC/Legato Networker: Performing recoveries from
command Line
To perform recoveries from EMC (or Legato) Networker on the command line, you can use
the recover command. The recover command runs in two modes:

Interactive mode: Interactive mode is the default mode for the recover command. This mode
places you in a shell-like environment that allows you to use subcommands. These
commands let you navigate the client file index to select and recover files and directories.

Non-interactive mode: In non-interactive mode, the files specified on the command line are
recovered automatically without browsing. To activate non-interactive mode, use the -a
option.

Using recover in Interactive Mode:

Login to the server you need to recover the file for and then type recover. This will place you
in the recover shell environment. You can also type recover [pathname] to set your initial
working directory (recover /etc), the default is the current working directory.
# recover /etc
Current working directory is /etc
recover>

Note: If you do not get a recover prompted when you type recover, add a -s servername
option:
# recover -s hostname
The following commands let you navigate a client file index to select and recover files and
directories:
ls
Lists information about the given files and directories. When no name argument is
provided, ls lists the contents of the current directory. When you specify a directory as
name, the content of that directory is displayed.
cd
Changes the current working directory. The default is the directory in which you
executed recover.
pwd
Prints the full pathname of the current working directory.
add [name.. ]
Adds the current directory or the named files or directories to the recover list. If a
directory is specified, it is added with all of the subordinate files to the recover list.
delete [name..]
Deletes the current directory or the named files or directories from the recover list. If
a directory is specified, that directory and all of the subordinate files are deleted from
the recover list.
versions [name..]
List all available versions for a file or directory. If no name is given the current
working directory is used.
changetime
Change the backup browse time to recover files before the last backup. You will be
prompted for new time. Time can be entered as December 15, 2009 or 12/15/2009.
list
Displays the files on the recover list.
recover
Recovers all files on the recover list from the Networker server. Upon completion, the
recover list is empty.
exit
Exits immediately from the recovery.
quit
Exits immediately from the recover. Files on the recover list are not recovered.
Using recover in Non-interactive mode:

In non-interactive mode, the files specified on the command line are recovered automatically
without browsing. To activate non-interactive mode, use the -a option. For example:

Recover the /etc/hosts file from the most recent backup:

# recover -a /etc/hosts

Using the recover Command in Directed Recoveries:

To relocate recovered files use the -d destination option with the recover command:

# recover -a -d /restore /etc/hosts
Recovering 1 file from /etc/ into /restore
Requesting 1 file(s), this may take a while...
./hosts
Received 1 file(s) from NSR server `networker'
Recover completion time: Thu Nov 18 14:39:15 2009

Using the recover Command to recover a file from a specific date: Enter the recover shell by
typing recover. Locate the file you need to restore using the ls and cd commands. List the
versions for the file using the versions command, and use the changetime command to
change to the day the file was backed up. Add the file to the recovery list using the add
command.

# recover
Current working directory is /

recover> versions /etc/hosts

Versions of `/etc/hosts':

4 -rw-rw-r-- root system 2006 Mar 31 16:32 hosts
save time: Mon Aug 9 20:02:53 EDT 2010
location: 004049

4 -rw-rw-r-- root system 2006 Mar 31 16:32 hosts
save time: Fri Aug 6 21:11:07 EDT 2010
location: DD0073 at DDVTL

4 -rw-rw-r-- root system 2006 Mar 31 16:32 hosts
save time: Mon Aug 2 20:06:48 EDT 2010
location: 004242 at rd=ntwrkrstgnd1:ATL

4 -rw-rw-r-- root system 2006 Mar 31 16:32 hosts
save time: Fri Jul 30 21:09:15 EDT 2010
location: DD0054 at DDVTL

4 -rw-rw-r-- root system 2006 Mar 31 16:32 hosts
save time: Mon Jul 26 20:10:20 EDT 2010
location: 004095

recover> changetime 8/1/2010
6497:recover: time changed to Sun Aug 1 23:59:59 EDT 2010
recover> add /etc/hosts
/etc
1 file(s) marked for recovery
recover> recover
Recovering 1 file into its original location
Volumes needed (all on-line):
DD0054 at \\.\Tape20
Total estimated disk space needed for recover is 4 KB.
Requesting 1 file(s), this may take a while...
./hosts
./hosts file exists, overwrite (n, y, N, Y) or rename (r, R) [n]? y
Overwriting ./hosts
Received 1 file(s) from NSR server `networker'
Recover completion time: Thu Aug 12 17:34:06 EDT 2010

Using the -f option we can recover files from the command line without having to answer
questions if we want to overwrite any existing files. For example, if you wish to recover the
entire /etc file system into /tmp:

# recover -f -d /tmp/ -a /etc/

All the files will be recovered to /tmp/etc.

The -c option can be used to recover files from different client. For example, if you wish to
recover the entire /etc file system of server "otherclient" to /tmp:

# recover -f -c otherclient -d /tmp/ -a /etc/

The -t option can be used to do a point-in-time recover of a file and/or file system. For
example, to recover the /etc/hosts file of 09/05/2010 at noon:
# recover -s networkerserver -t "09/05/2010 12:00" -a /etc/hosts
Recovering multiple files is also possible. For example, if you wish to recover 2 mksysb
images:

# recover -f -c client -s server -a mksysb.image1 mksysb.image2