I am confused about something. In Windows, with a local disk, you define 
shared folders, and the security of the share (which is separate from the 
NTFS permissions). Then, if you need to restore that disk, NW will restore 
everything - files, folders, share and NTFS permissions. So the share will 
be available when the restore is done, AFAIK.

But what about cluster shares? With a cluster, the share is defined in 
Cluster Manager, and (usually) the share definitions are dependent on a 
cluster disk drive. But if you restore the contents of the disk drive, you 
do not restore (and reactivate) the share definitions and permissions.
(we just did this over the weekend). We were doing some SAN work - 
replacing the cluster disk with a different one from the SAN. So we turned 
off the share before getting rid of the old disk. Then we made the new 
disk, and did a NW recover of the contents. All went well.

The last step is to go back to Cluster Manager, and turn the shares back 
on. This is what got me thinking - suppose something disastrous happened, 
and I need to re-create the entire cluster, Where would I be able to 
restore the cluster settings such as shares? What do I backup?

Right now, I am doing a saveset ALL of both physical nodes, and saveset 
ALL of the 2 virtual cluster clients. But I don't think that is saving the 
share definitions.

Can anybody shed any light on my lack of understanding? What else should I 
be backing up, in order to make sure I am saving the cluster definition 
(clients, share definitions, etc). And where would I then restore them?

I don't think these are stored/saved in Active Directory, so my FULL 
backups of my Domain Controllers wouldn't be of any use in this case. But 
if not there, then where?

Thanks

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Michael Leone
Network Administrator, ISM
Philadelphia Housing Authority
2500 Jackson St
Philadelphia, PA 19145
Tel:  215-684-4180
Cell: 215-252-0143
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