EMC NetWorker Backup Data Restore

Data Strategies Interchange today reported on the successful completion of EMC NetWorker Backup Data Restore from a client’s data center in Libya.

The customer, a major US oil company, had flown out all of its disaster recovery backup tapes when hostilities began to near its offices in Libya. The customer had been using (formerly Legato Networker) Dell EMC EMC Networker for data protection for its UNIX and Windows servers, as well as for its NetApp filer.

Data Strategies was provided with all LTO-3 backup tapes and a disk copy of the EMC Networker mminfo catalog for the EMC NetWorker Backup Data Restore. Data Strategies’ proprietary MediaGenie Proteus application was used to import the catalog and, using one pass over the tapes, to extract all multiplexed backup fragments to staging disk for subsequent processing. At each target platform (Windows, UNIX), fragment files were combined to regenerate the original backup stream and restored it to the corresponding file system (NTFS, UFS). The NDMP fragment files were recombined and restored on a NetApp filer, which was leased from our partner ZeroWait.

All data was delivered on the customer on high capacity SATA disks and moved to servers at the company’s Houston, TX headquarters so that their teams of Geoscientists could resume exploring for oil & gas.

Further information about DSI’s backup data migration services can be found here.