Stan,

Unless I missed it are you saying that you have no security context in
place when you backup your data? And that you have no restrictions in
place as to who can recover your data? I run in a mixed environment but
at times even I have security issues recovering data in the same
environment that it was backed up in. As an example an account may have
enough privileges to backup the data but not have sufficient privileges
to restore the data. (On Windows SYSTEM can often backup the data but
not be able to restore it <especially in Windows 2003>)One major benefit
for me with Networker is that it preserves the security context of the
data on tape. You may be able to scan the data in but you won't be able
to actually use it which mutes the point. 

The reason why all the DR guides tell you to recover the Networker
Server first is because the Server you build to recover the data has no
access to what was backed up in the Production environment. It's not in
an ACL or access group anywhere on tape. 



Thanks,

Dana

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Stan Horwitz
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:36 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: 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 not  
> at all familiar with UNIX/Mainframe or even with using a storage  
> node, but you will have to scanner that data into a Networker  
> installation somewhere and the networker installation must have the  
> volume/media/security/registration settings identical to your source  
> networker server.  Do you have all of this Networker info documented  
> so that you can rebuild it all manually?  Additionally Networker is  
> heavily dependant upon DNS.  How will you restore without proper  
> host resolution?

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

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

>
> BTW Are you going to the Scottsdale facility?  That is a fantastic  
> facility 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 Jersey  
> facility starting later this year.

No, this SunGard facility is in Philadelphia.

> Also one gotcha I ran into during my first test was block size  
> differences between the LTO3 drives I use in my production facility  
> and those on the Drives provided by Sungard.  Fixed eventually with  
> a 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 using  
the default block size for our LTO-3 devices here.

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