I had a ticket generated at EMC for this, and unfortunately they have told me
there is no way to do what I am attempting to do. Being that I have been told
this in the past, and found that they were wrong by checking the boards here, I
thought I would post the information and what I am attempting to do. Maybe
someone here can actually answer this.
The environment:
We have 2 backup servers. One handles production, and one handles QA/FT/DV.
Both systems are windows and both are running 7.4.4. The production system has
LTO-4 drives (we use 3 and 4 tapes for backups and clones). The non production
system is LTO-2, and has more drives.
The problem:
The DBAs here run scripts to do transaction logs and random backups/recoveries
at all hours of the day/night. This has caused many problems on the production
system, as the LTO-4 drives have been fickle at best lately. Every time I take
the system for an outage the DBAs complain. The beginning of the week has been
a nightmare because we try to get all the cloning done as fast as possible so
it can go offsite by Wednesday. Because the production system has fewer
drives, and far more to do from Sunday through Wednseday morning, I am looking
to move the SQL clients to the non production backup server.
My solution:
Moving the SQL clients to the non production backup server allows more
flexibility with the backups and cloning process. Moving the clients is easy
enough to do. Cloning isn't a problem either.
What I need help with:
At the DR site we only bring up one backup server, the production one. We only
have one library at the DR site, and depending on the test year, only 3-4 days
to bring the whole production site up. There is no time to scan all the SQL
tapes in from the non production backup server to the production one. We need
to bring the backup server up and get the backbone systems up as fast as
possible and then start running restores immediately. What I need is a way to
get the indexes of just the SQL clients merged into the production system
without having to scan the approximately 15 tapes the data will be on.
What I have tried so far:
I have tried running a bootstrap from the non production system and scanning
just the indexes for the clients I need onto the production server (I have the
SQL clients on both backup servers using the same client ID) but the saveset
just shows up as Recoverable (cr flag). None of the savesets show up, so this
is no working. Like I stated in the beginning, EMC support claims that there
is no way to achieve what I need.
Any ideas? I am open to trying most anything at this point. I can get the
approvals to move the clients, I just need to prove that we can move a client
and that we will not spend the first 20 hours at the DR site scanning tapes...
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