BTW, if you've documented the steps you go through to do this, I'd love to
see them!
At 12:03 PM 6/29/00 -0400, Martin, Barbara wrote:
>I am surprised to learn that Veritas does not officially support adding or
>removing a slave with the master and all other slaves active. I have done
>this several times. Once with a Veritas consultant on site. As long as
>there are no current backups running on the slave to be removed and you have
>no backups scheduled to go to that slave, there are no problems with
>removing the slave. The same for adding a slave, which is even easier since
>you cannot configure backups to the new slave until after the slave is
>active. I have never had to stop all backups on the master and other
>slaves. I have the adding of a new slave procedure documented. Please
>contact me if you want further information.
>
>Barb Martin
>Voice: (937)445-3674
>VoicePlus: 622-3674
>FAX: (937)445-3398
>mailto:barbara.martin AT DaytonOH.NCR DOT COM
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pascal VIOLERO AI/DI-TA [SMTP:pascal.violero AT airbus DOT fr]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 3:34 AM
> > To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] How to add or remove a slave server without
> > stopping master and all others slaves
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Veritas indicate to us that it's mandatory to stop all slave
> > servers and master to add a new slave
> > server in the configuration, so all backups are stopped.
> >
> > Do you know if a solution exist (as is not supported by
> > veritas) to add or remove a slave without stopping master
> > and
> > others slaves, and if it's possible without stopping current
> > backup.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > --------------------------------------
> > Pascal Violero (AI/DI-T)
> > Phone : 05.61.9(3.28.03)
> > Email : pascal.violero AT airbus DOT fr
> > Fax : 05.61.9(3.35.67)
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