Re: [Networker] Tips for doing a DR at SunGard

On Jan 16, 2008, at 10:18 AM, Cox, Shawn wrote:

Hi Stan,
How will you handle networker's authentication to the data? I'm notat all familiar with UNIX/Mainframe or even with using a storagenode, but you will have to scanner that data into a Networkerinstallation somewhere and the networker installation must have thevolume/media/security/registration settings identical to your sourcenetworker server. Do you have all of this Networker info documentedso that you can rebuild it all manually? Additionally Networker isheavily dependant upon DNS. How will you restore without properhost resolution?

My understanding is that licensing issues are not pertinent whenrecovering data; only when backing it up, so this shouldn't be aproblem ... I hope. I am not understanding why I need to rebuild myNetWorker server since I would only need to use it to read data offtape, stream it to a client's disk, then forget about the NetWorkerserver and return my magnetic tapes to storage.

These questions are a big reason why I am doing this test, but I hopeto get it right the first time.

BTW Are you going to the Scottsdale facility? That is a fantasticfacility and I have done my DR tests there for the last three years,but I'm 100% Windows. We are moving tests to the New Jerseyfacility starting later this year.


No, this SunGard facility is in Philadelphia.

Also one gotcha I ran into during my first test was block sizedifferences between the LTO3 drives I use in my production facilityand those on the Drives provided by Sungard. Fixed eventually witha call, but was a 1 hour delay before I could get anything going.

This is good to know. Who did you call? What was the fix? We are usingthe default block size for our LTO-3 devices here.


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