First off, good luck with the test. 

Just curious, why wouldn't you bring your boostrap, and/or index files?
Scanning a tape takes quite a while, especially one that is close to 1TB
in size.   Also, the name of the server could come in to play, but I'm
not sure since you are doing the scan.  

When I had to recover over 90 servers (Katrina), it was a lengthy (but
straightforward) process of recovering the index of each server to
restore.  Once the index was restored, DR people could then start all of
their restores.  

In your case, a boostrap, some renaming the res directory, and then
recovering 1 index could be done in a very short time frame.  I think it
would be much quicker than scanning the whole tape.  Maybe others have
had different experiences with tape scanning.  

Let us know how it goes.  

David M. Browning Jr.
IT Project Coordinator Enterprise Backups and Help Desk

 
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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Stan Horwitz
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 8:24 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Tips for doing a DR at SunGard

Greetings everyone;

I am scheduled to do a DR test at SunGard on January 27th. This is a
first for me. I am told I will have an LTO-3 tape library connected to
a Sun box with Solaris 10. My production NetWorker server is 7.4 on a
Sun T2000 with Solaris 10. I am scheduled to recover data from only
one client, a Linux box and I will have another Linux box at my
disposal at SunGard for this exercise. I am heading over to SunGard in
a couple of hours to do a pre-flight check, but they said they won't
allow me to log onto any of the test hardware until the day of the
test, which is not good from my standpoint. I also will not have the
benefit of my production server's media database and CFI for this
test. Fortunately, the data is all straight text files, no database
stuff and its only one client; the one that handles our University's
most important data. For this test, I also only need to recover a
subset of the files in order to verify that they can be read, but I am
going to try to talk the others on the DR team to let me recover the
full set of data so I can get an idea of how long the recover process
would take in a real DR situation. The entire set of data is roughly
1TB.

Since I only have one client I need to recover, I am thinking I would
just put the tapes in the SunGard tape library and start scanning them
in order. For this particular client, I have an automated script that
emails me daily the output of "mminfo -v " and I get that output both
on my work email and my gmail.com address and I also automatically
archive the results on a web site at work and on a google groups web
site for safe keeping. I do the same for the daily bootstrap.
Unfortunately, I do not have the means to do a test of this before the
SunGard DR test; we lack the disk space.

So if anyone has any tips on how I should go about doing this recover
at SunGard, please let me know.

Thanks

--
Stan Horwitz
Temple University
Enterprise Systems Group
stan AT temple DOT edu

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