Hello,

What system are you running?

What type of recovery are you performing, browsable recovery, save set recovery or directed recovery?

What storage media do you use to recover? Can you restore them to the local drive?

Does the same result appear if you use NetWorker User, recover or nwrecover to recover the files?

Regards,

Tim

I have a same problem. When I try to do directed recovery from the client who have installed 8.1 client, there is a same message.

What client version are you using?

The destination of your backup is DataDomain?

Is that VMS?  If so, which client version and which server do you use?

Hello!

I had a similar problem.

I got the following error:

52973:recover: Didn't recover requested file ./hosts

It is a try of an directed recover.

The command is below:

recover -vvv  -s NWserver -d /tmp  -c ANOTHER_SERVER  -R THE_LOCAL_SERVER -a /etc/hosts

One file is requested, but no file is recovered.

Server is version 8.1 and clients are higher than 7.6.

Any ideas?

Do you see tape requested on server?  Do you have permissions to restore from remote client?

Hello,

the daemon.log on the server is the following:

...

...

70920 28.04.15 09:05:23  nsrd NSR info CLIENTA:root browsing

70919 28.04.15 09:05:23  nsrd NSR info CLIENTA:root done browsing

70920 28.04.15 09:05:24  nsrd NSR info CLIENTA:root browsing

70911 28.04.15 09:05:27  nsrd NSR info CLIENTB:/etc (4/18/15) starting read from dd86001.004 of 1 KB

70901 28.04.15 09:05:27  nsrd NSR info CLIENTB:/etc (4/18/15) done reading from dd86001.004 1 KB

70919 28.04.15 09:05:27  nsrd NSR info CLIENTA:root done browsing

70920 28.04.15 09:05:28  nsrd NSR info CLIENTA:root browsing

71193 28.04.15 09:05:29  nsrd NSR info Recover Info: User root on CLIENTA successfully recovered CLIENTB's files to CLIENTA using directed recover

70919 28.04.15 09:05:29  nsrd NSR info CLIENTA:root done browsing

...

...

In tab "Globals (2 of 2)" in field "Remote Access" of CLIENTB is the Clienta not inserted. But even if I insert CLIENTA there, its not working.

Kind regards

Hello,

additional information: the recover has to read from datadomain.

The question was above in that thread, maybe its important.

Hello,

recover -vvv -t 04/11/2015  -s server -d /SOMEDIR  -c CLIENTB  -R CLIENTA -a /etc

On 10th april was a full backup.

That recover works fine. I have the impression, that the browsing time is important. I expect, when there is no browsing time, NW tooks the latest version of the files, but it seems to fail.

Maybe NW can only recover files, when the files are in the range of the browsing time.

But how long is the range of the browing time?

The recover was successful to the date 04.14.2015. On 04.15.2015 and later there appears the error 52973.

How can I be sure, to recover the latest version of all the files in save set /etc?

Your assumption is not correct.

NW can recover files from any savetime. However, without a time given, he will look in the current backup cycle.

If the file does not exist it is obviously missing in these backups. In this case you must select an earlier browse time or save set.

The browsability depends on the save set status.

Usually you control that by the 'browse policy' which you set before the backup.

However, you may later change the browse date or change the save set status etc.

If not browsable any more you could also find the correct SSID and modify your command as follows:

  recover ... -S -a

You have lots of options to select either an earlier browse time or a specific backup version.

Please read the 'recover' manpage for details or simply use the NW User GUI which you may find easier to use.

Yes, it supports the recovery of UNIX/Linux Clients as well.