Hello Rick,

very welcome and very useful information.
I found the 'Cluster Database' as a 256 KB object in 'SystemState' as
you said.
However, there's a quorum disk as well with some '*hive*' files.
According to our Windows admin, these don't need to be backed up.

Thanks again and best regards,
Rainer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of Rick Adamson
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 3:28 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Windows server 2008 cluster db backup
>
> In 2008 the cluster config and cluster db are backed up via VSS, as a
> part of the systemstate. We are just now moving to 2008 so I haven't
> done any testing with it yet to see how/if TSM has a recommended
> solution. However, seeing that it is part of the SS you should be able
> to test it by running a backup and then either querying the components
> of the system state (or use the GUI) to see if it is present.
>
> On another note:
> Many opinions are that in most cases there is little need to restore
> the
> clusterdb from backup since 2008 clusters use the Majority Node Set
> model. This means that instead of the cluster config & db being on a
> quorum drive each node of the cluster has its own copy locally, as
> well
> as backup copies stored with a "tmp" file extension. When a node is
> recovered or rebuilt and re-joined into the cluster the surviving
> nodes
> provide the new node a copy of the current database (following the
> process in links below).
>
> Simply stated a copy of the db (and "tmp" backups) are located locally
> on every node of the cluster.
>
> This may help:
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2008/01/20/7176982.aspx
>
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224999
>
> Hope this helps you out...
> ~Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of
> Rainer Holzinger
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 3:19 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Windows server 2008 cluster db backup
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I'm running a MX cluster on two Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise servers.
>
> TSM B/A client 5.5.2.12 is installed on both.
>
> How do I backup the MS clusterdb?
>
>
>
> Thanks and best regards,
>
> Rainer
>
>
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