I haven't played with NBU clustering but it sounds like an interesting option.
To promote the media server to a master, you'd effectively have to rename the server to the master's name and recover the catalog. You'd lose any mediadb info from the media server, but you would still be able to recover from the media server's tapes I believe - just not write new backups to them.
Have you considered making the NBU server at the DR site the Master and "demoting" your existing master to a media server? I have seen this done before and it certainly makes DR faster and easier.
Cheers,
Dean
On 12/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dean
On 12/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We have are a small company.
We only have 1 Master Server with 14 clients. Our master server runs on Solaris.
This is what we do for our cold dr process(no available hardware) and our warm dr process(availible hardware).
Protecting the server
==================
Solaris allows you to create an image (or flash archive) of your server. We create the flash archive(down all the daemons) and burn it onto a Dual Layer DVD.
The Solaris OS Installer is what allows you to apply the flash archive to a server. After the system is booted we run tpconfig and fix up what broke. Works great for Solaris 8 and 10.
Protecting the Clients
==================
We run BMR. It's a great product for moving servers around. The only issue we have is the lack of support for Solaris 10 BMR clients. It's great for moving servers onto different hardware.
We currently don't have a HOT DR solution. It sounds like that is what your trying to do. I'd love to hear what you come up with.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/09/2005 04:06:11 PM:
> We're starting the process of building out another data center as a
> disaster recovery facility. One of the things I don't yet know how to
> configure is NetBackup. We've got a single Solaris master server today
> and will obviously be putting a Solaris backup server at the DR site.
> We will also have a tape library there that will be doing regular
> backups as well as handle any disaster recovery restorations.
>
> Should I do a global cluster configuration for NetBackup? If not, and I
> configure the 2nd server as just a media server, how do I promote it to
> be a master? What support mechanisms are there to keep the catalog up
> to date at the DR site?
>
> I've had a quick look through the Veritas web site but haven't found
> anything that documents best practises for cases like this.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> .../Ed
>
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