I just tried this (on 5.3.7R2) and the H option appears to work fine.  (Don't you just love these undocumented switches, can NetApp document it please).

- Bruce

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Yinfung Fong wrote:

You will also need the 'H' option for the restore on filer.  The beginning
of dump stream on second and subsequent tapes does not have a dump header
and the option instructs restore to skip it.

I believe ufsrestore does not support this option and thus it's much more
difficult to run on dumps generated by NDMP.  It is possible though.

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Steve Kappel wrote:

> >Does anyone know how to restore a Veritas NetBackup NDMP backup using
> >restore (or ufsrestore)?
> >
> >Its quite easy with a single tape backup (you do a "mt -f nrst0a fsf 1;
> >mt -f nrst0a fsr 2" to skip over the Veritas header).  But after
> >skipping the header on a second tape, the format doesn't seem to be the
> >same as a normal dump continuation tape.
>
> On the second tape you "fsr 1" instead of 2.
>
> The entire NDMP image is encapsulated in a tar header and trailer.
> Each tape file has a leading file header.  Each tape has a tape
> label.
>
> At the beginning you are
>
> skipping the tape label file
> skipping the file header and tar header
>
> On the 2..N tapes you need to
>
> skip the tape label file
> skip the file header
>
>
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