On Mar 16, 2010, at 9:24 PM, SMarie wrote:

> We currently have Networker v7.4.4 backing up our Tier1 servers to Data 
> Domain adv_file devices.  That works great...but here's the trickier part I 
> need help with.  We have the Data Domain device replicating the backed up 
> device data to a Data Domain offsite.  Now I need to figure out a way to make 
> a restore seemless.  I have been unable to do that.  You have to copy over 
> indexes and scan in the device.  LONG PROCESS.  They want a process that 
> allows up to automatically run restores on the systems in the DR site with 
> the replicated Networker data at the DR site.  Any ideas?  I'm open to 
> anything.  Networker has been a struggle to figure out without adding 
> additional licenses - looks like we may have to.  Does anyone out there use 
> Networker for their complete DR solution?  Any information is greatly 
> appreciated. 

If your NetWorker server is on a Linux or Solaris box, perhaps if your rsync 
your index data from the production to the DR NetWorker server, it might meet 
your needs. What we do is simply mm recov our bootstrap stuff to our DR server, 
then we can "nsrck -L7" or client file indices. We have very different DR needs 
than you do though because we do not have Data Domain in our environment so I 
am speculating that an rsync might work, but it is worth at least thinking 
about.

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