Directing recoveries to another client

   Directed recovery allows a NetWorker administrator to remotely
   recover backed-up data
   from a NetWorker client (the source client) and direct it to another
   NetWorker client (the
   destination client).


and

   Task 1: Add privileges to members of the user group

   Directed recovery is a restricted NetWorker function available only
   to users who have the
   Remote Access All Clients privilege.

Thanks for providing your experiences.

--Geoff

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of Geoffrey Duke
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 11:12 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Sanity Check: Restore to Windows Cluster Resource

Hi,



I've been working with EMC support on an issue I have with a Windows Cluster
environment. I've got a two-node cluster, with a single Cluster Resource
(virtual node) client. I have been successful in backing up the physical
nodes and the cluster resource client with no real problem. I can recover
files only be running the restore operation on the physical node on which
the cluster resource is presently mounted. This true of both the GUI and
CLI.



What I would like to be able to do is to run the recovery on either node,
selecting the cluster resource client as both the source and destination.
When I attempt this, I get an error message indicating that I need the
"remote access all clients" privilege. I really don't want to give the
server administrator of a cluster rights to every networker client. I would
like the "remote access" attribute of the client to suffice.



I've been told by a third party consultant that this should work, and that
he has other clients where this does work. However, I've opened an issue
with EMC, and over the past few weeks, as I tried to explain how the
administrator of a client system wasn't necessarily also a Networker
administrator, they have decided that the product is working as designed.



Is anyone who uses Networker with Windows Clustering able to perform this
kind of recovery? Was there some special way that you configured the "remote
access" attributes for the cluster members?



Currently running:  Networker Client 7.3.4 ,  Networker Server 7.3.3



--Geoff

Geoffrey Duke
802.656.1172 |  <http://www.uvm.edu/~gcd> System Administrator |
<http://www.uvm.edu/ets> Enterprise Architecture & Administration |
<http://www.uvm.edu/> University of Vermont

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