Restore Failover properties

The Restore Failover properties control how NetBackup performs automatic failover to a NetBackup media server. A failover server may be necessary if the regular media server is temporarily inaccessible to perform a restore operation.

The automatic failover does not require administrator intervention. By default, NetBackup does not perform automatic failover.

The Restore Failover properties apply to selected master servers.

The following situations describe examples of when to use the restore failover capability:

In these instances, inaccessible means that the connection between bprd on the master server and bptm on the media server (through bpcd) fails.

Possible reasons for the failure are as follows:

The Media server column displays the NetBackup media servers that have failover protection for restores. The Failover restore server column displays the servers that provide the failover protection. NetBackup searches from top to bottom in the Failover restore server column until it finds another server that can perform the restore.

A NetBackup media server can appear only once in the Media server column but can be a failover server for multiple other media servers. The protected server and the failover server must both be in the same master and media server cluster.

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Adding failover servers