Del,
I have all these issues clear, but there are some points about "setting up
the scheduler" in the procedure described in the "Data Protection for
Exchange User's Guide" that does not seems to be clear, like:

1. Move the Exchange virtual server to the secondary node of the
cluster to create the scheduler service. Make sure the secondary
node of the cluster has ownership of the Exhange virtual server.
2. The primary node of the cluster must contain the command file on
the fileshare used to create the scheduler service.

When I do the step one, the primary node looses the access to the file
share, then the step two is not factible to be done.

3. In the primary node (nodeA) when I installed the windows service I used
the following parameters /node:nodeA /password:pass_nodeA
/optfile:nodeA.opt.
To install the windows service to failover in the secondary node(nodeB),
should I use the same parameters like in the primary node /node:nodeA
/password:pass_nodeA /optfile:nodeA.opt or should I modified the parameters
to match the nodeB?

Thanks, Regards
Henry Aranda

From: Del Hoobler <hoobler AT US.IBM DOT COM>
Reply-To: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Doubts to Schedule Backups on an Exchange cluster
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 19:44:55 -0500

Henry,

Please refer to the Appendix in the
Data Protection for Exchange User's Guide.
It discusses the subject for setting up
scheduling for an Exchange Server in an
Active/Passive cluster. An Active/Active
Exchange Server cluster configuration
is simply two Active/Passive setups.

You need to set up DP for Exchange on both sides
of the cluster for EACH server in the
Active/Active cluster.

A point to keep in mind when setting this up
for Active/Active clusters... always treat
Exchange servers in an Active/Active cluster
as COMPLETELY separate servers, which they are.
That means, they should have different TSM NODENAMEs,
different options files, different DP for Exchange
configuration files, etc. They are two distinct
and separate servers and must be treated that way
when it comes to backing them up.

For your example... you will set up four TSM scheduler
services, one on each machine for Exchange Virtual Server #1
and one on each machine for Exchange Virtual Server #2.
And you will create two cluster resources (one for each
Exchange Virutal Server) that refer to the scheduler services
for each server.

Thanks,

Del

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Del Hoobler
IBM Corporation
hoobler AT us.ibm DOT com

- Never cut what can be untied.
- Commit yourself to constant improvement.

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> In order to schedule backups on an exchange cluster active/active I did
the
> following steps:
>
> On the TSM Server
> I registered two node names and I defined two schedules one for each
> exchange virtual server (exchange cluster active/active). Each schedule
runs
> a command file pointing to its exchange virtual server.
>
> Is about installing a windows service where I have some doubts. In the
first
> node (nodeA) I installed the windows service using /node:nodeA
> /password:pass_nodeA /optfile:nodeA.opt. In the second node (NodeB) to
> install the windows service, should I use the same parameters like in
the
> first node /node:nodeA /password:pass_nodeA /optfile:nodeA.opt?

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