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Hello
Everyone
I have an issue
where I need to provide a relatively quick DR plan
but the issue is a
bit difficult to plan a quick and effective solution.
We need to provide a
solution in case our production Master server goes down
and to restore
critical data using our DR site across the street. The problem
is
that the DR site is
not a match of the Production site.
Production
site
NB 6.0
Master
6 media
servers
DR
site
NB 6.0
Master
No media
servers
The
Situation
I cannot restore the
hot catalog because it is trying to locate those media servers in the database
and bombs out.
I restored the cold
catalog but since we do not delete anything the catalog is huge (198
GB's)
Restoring either
catalog is going to take hours because of the size and trying to rebuild the
catalog
everyday doesn't
make sense just to restore current data of one of our critical
systems.
I could use the two
phase import but that takes time also and I would like a better
solution.
Ideas
I was thinking of
using two options ... the first is:
Windows NT NetBackup
server:
Use the RegEdit application to modify the
key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VERITAS\NetBackup\CurrentVersion\Config
to add the value FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER and then set
the
newly added value to fromhost tohost, where
fromhost is the media
server that performed the
original backup and tohost is the
desired media host
to use for the restore.
The 2nd option is
the Host
Overide Option
bpimage.exe -id media_id -newserver
hostname
-oldserver hostname
Only problem is that
the DR server is the Exact same name as the Production Master. However I am
assuming the
main thing is
to override the media server that the image is assigned
to.
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Last idea I
have is to place a media server in the DR environment matching one of the
production media
server names.
Then only use that media server to back up critical systems so that it will
match the DR site media
server in the
catalog. However this would still involve building the
catalog.
Any opinions
or suggestions would be appreciated !!??
Thanks
Jackson
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