If having DR is so important that you have to jump through all these hoops,
I'd suggest actually looking at what is supported in NetWorker.

NetWorker supports Active/Passive clustering of NW servers.

You might consider synchronous replication to the remote site.

You do have to be careful when bringing up the remote site. What happens if
the server was in the middle of a commit to the media or index databases?
Index is not so much of a problem, but the media index is.

Siobhan

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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of opopanax
Sent: Sunday, 22 March 2009 6:49 PM
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Subject: [Networker] Migrating index files and media db from Primary to DR

Hi

    We have a backup server in our primary setup that is connected to a
4-drive LTO3 tape library and a newly configured Virtual library. In DR we
have a backup server connected to a 2-drive LTO3 tape library. The VTL is
visible and configured on DR backup server as well. We will be shifting all
our daily/weekly backups to VTL in a short while. Since the same VTL is
available on both backup servers, we want the index files & media db in the
primary server be migrated to DR backup server so that restoration can be
done in case the primary server goes down. Is there a way to do this?

    We know that to make index files be available on another backup server,
you have to scan the media and recreate the index. We also tried shutting
down the services on both servers and copying the index and media db
folders. the second approach works but is there a better way to make this
happen?

Backup servers are running Networker 7.5 on Windows 2003 Server.

Thanks
opopanax.

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