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Goal

Restore of a SESAM server without sm_recover only using sbc directly from still existing virtual disk images.

This example recreates the following situation: a SEP sesam server with a 1 GB media pool backup (location /backup) which contains 9 virtual disk media. The SESAM_BACKUP and other backups are located on these disk media.

A disaster occured and only the disk media are existant. Now the state of the SEP sesam server before the disaster is to be restored from these media.

Course of Action

Adding the old Media

Creating the media pool:

Archive adjustment:

After successful initialization:

Loading the Media to the Virtual Loader

Loading the first disk medium with the virtual loader (loader action):

Restore of the SESAM_BACKUP via sbc

Displaying the existant savesets on the virtual disk medium via sm_sms_interface:

Restore is executed with the sbc command which contains following information: <b>sbc -r -l FULL -C <client_host>:11001 -S <server_host>:11001 -d SMS:<tape_device> -t <tape_name>:<tape_id> -s <saveset_id> -n <segmentnumber> -R / -o overwrite</b>

After this the SEP sesam server is back to its old state!