[Veritas-bu] Windows flash-backup experiences (again)

[WEAVER, Simon (external)]

Jason
Are you backing up the "Physical" computer names? 

Lets say your computer server names are NODE1 and NODE2

The Virtual Server Name is VIRTUAL1

What I do, is have a policy for the 2 cluster nodes, backup C:, shadow copy,
and any other local drives

There is another policy for the VIRTUAL1 Server which backs up the data

As a rule, I do not use local drives

Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Leidy, Jason
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Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 3:32 PM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows flash-backup experiences (again)


I backup ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES on a few of our clusters, it gets everything. For
instance, I'll put both physical nodes that host the cluster in a policy
that uses the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES option. I'm new to the backup world, is this
not the best practice? It gets the quorum and everything (I'm able to
restore the data).

Jason

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 7:23 AM
To: 'Martin, Jonathan'; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows flash-backup experiences (again)

NetBackup has to be treated differently on clusters - it needs to run on the
virtual server that hosts the volume group and you can't do an
ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES policy on a cluster.  With FlashBackups, you also need to
make sure that the snapshot volume is a member of the disk group or your
disk group could fail over to another node and leave the snapshot volume
behind.

This is no different on a Windows cluster than it is on a Veritas cluster.
Only VMS clusters get it right since they have a cluster-wide file system.

	.../Ed

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin, Jonathan [mailto:JMARTI05 at intersil.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 8:43 AM
> To: Ed Wilts; ida3248b at post.cybercity.dk; veritas-
> bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Windows flash-backup experiences (again)
> 
> 
> Netbackup isn't installed as a clustered resource.  It runs on all
> nodes independent of one another. Why would cluster configuration be 
> any different then a plain build on Windows?
> 
> -Jonathan
> 

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