>Jim,
>about the clustering bit, it works as a charm. We worked on Compaq
>clustering hardware, 2 NT machines with both a local hard disk and shared
>RAID box. We installed ADSM NT client on both machines (one at a time) with
>exactly the same options file, same NODE name, same TCPCLIENTADDRESS (using
>the shared TCP address, i.e. the one that is taken over by either machine
>after a failover) etc. etc.. We then installed the scheduler as a service
>(on both machines) with autostart=no.
>On the clustering side we let the clustering software take control of
>stopping and starting the scheduler service by adding the scheduler as a
>resource of type generic service. The scheduler is then added to the rest
of
>the services that are under control of clustering startup and failover. It
>all worked perfectly, without a hitch.
>One detail though, we don't backup the local disks only the shared RAID box
>drives, reason for this is that the local drives have the same label. Add
to
>this that NT (and  it's registry) is installed on the local drive,  doing a
>restore of the local disk to the wrong machine will probably spell the blue
>screen of death. A simple relabel will solve the problem, but we're not
>interested in system backup's (we have software distribution for that) just
>the user data.
>One nice detail, while testing the failover during a backup, to our suprise
>the backup was re-initiated seconds after failover on the failover machine
>and ADSM just continued backing up the shared drives. This did not happen
on
>a restore but we could do a restart restore.
>
>Have fun,
>
>Walter Ridderhof  (Mainland Sequoia, ridderw AT xs4all DOT nl)
>
>> We have just recently installed a Microsoft Cluster, Wolfpack.  We are
>> using ADSM v3 on MVS to do backups and restores to Microsoft Windows NT
>> servers.  Has anybody setup ADSM to do backups in a clustered
>> environment??  We can backup the primary partitions on each server but
>> we have other partitions that switched back and forth from one server to
>> the other server when the cluster software fails over.  So what I am
>> looking for is a way to setup the client so that I can backup/restore
>> the other partitions to the same filespace on the ADSM server.  Any
>> ideas would be appreciated!!
>>
>> Jim Sellars
>> Lane County
>> Regional Information Systems
>> 125 E. 8th Ave.
>> Eugene, OR 97401
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