Hi Michael,

You haven't given any information of the OS version. However, the way you
are backing up the physical nodes are ok, but I would recommend you to
provide the saveset as the specific drive letters while backingup the
virtual nodes. As far as cluster information is concerened, its by default
quorum drive i.e. Q:\ drive. So, in the cluster manager the default group
is created which has a cluster name and Q:\ drive assgined. Create a client
in networker with the cluster name and backup the Q:\ drive as a saveset.

Thanks & Regards

Akshay Bhumkar
+91-9342420444
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On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Michael Leone
<Michael.Leone AT pha.phila DOT gov>wrote:

> 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
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