Virtualization, Servers and Storage : UTORrecover NetWorker error: "Initializing the file level recovery of the client 'null'"

Created by JM Lopez, last modified on Sep 19, 2025

(blue star) Problem

Recover operations fail with: Initializing the file level recovery of the client 'null'. This may happen in dual-homed networker clients.

(blue star) Solution

  1. Run recover as follows: 

    recover -R $(hostname -f) -c <fqdn_of_management_interface>

  2. Recovery should succeed.