I'll take a stab at it: Don't think "drives" think "groups"

Remember that Windows Cluster drives do not "float" around on their own- they 
are part of a Cluster Group.  That group also includes IP addresses- you can 
and should have a dedicated backup IP address for each Cluster Group that 
resolves to a unique name in the DNS.  Point your backups at the Cluster Group 
DNS name, NOT the physical node names.

Since all the resources in a Cluster Group  always move together, your backups 
will follow the Cluster Group Backup IP address, and the expected drives will 
always be there (unless they fail to come online- but that's a different 
problem).

As long as your Netbackup Clients on the physical nodes have the correct 
media/master server entries, they can remain blissfully ignorant of what's 
going on- Netbackup will take care of it.

You'll need a separate policy for each Cluster Group, since "All_LOCAL_DRIVES" 
becomes useless- all drives must be explicitly listed, and you'll also need 
separate system policies to protect the OS on the physical nodes (limit those 
to the C drive and the system state).

Just remember that restores won't work right from the client side under normal 
settings- you'll want to run those from the media/master. (you can get around 
that, but it's a pain).



Tom Burrell


smwoodcrafts wrote:
> It might be easier, because I'm new to this and probably not explaining it 
> correctly, to just ask what are the correct steps when configuring for backup 
> of the floating drives in a cluster. There has to be something I missed. This 
> would be an all Windows environment and I would need steps on configuring the 
> client software, from start to finish. If someone could please explain this 
> to me, I would appreciate it.
> 
> smwoodcrafts


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