Re: [Networker] KATRINA disaster recovery

Has anyone heard from the original author?

A. I hope he is ok and B. I would like to get his absolute REAL WORLD
review of what they did to recover the data. Whether the backup plan
they had worked, what it was, what they would have changed, etc.

Basically a lessons learned.

Semper Fidelis, /ALE


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Legato NetWorker discussion 
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Dave Mussulman
> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 6:46 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Possible disaster recovery
> 
> Browning, David wrote:
> 
> >Well, I really hope this isn't necessary, but as I write 
> this email, I 
> >am facing the possibility of having a destroyed data center at this 
> >time on Monday.  We have evacuated, with an incredible 
> number of backup tapes.
> >
> >What I was wondering, is there anything that I can do from a remote 
> >location to speed up recovery time - such as copying the 
> media database to another
> >remote computer, or copying the bootstrap.   Is there such a 
> way as to run a
> >bootstrap to a disk, or maybe a directed recover of the bootstrap?
> >
> >I have probably 18-24 hours to do some things from this remote 
> >location, before we will lose connectivity to the data 
> center (my assumption).
> >
> >I gladly welcome any ideas at this point. 
> >
> >  
> >
> As was already mentioned; don't rely on a bootstrap or index 
> restores (although in this case, saveset restores are what 
> you're going to want to do.)  Shutdown the existing networker 
> server, archive the nsr directory with something else (tar, 
> ntbackup, etc.) and copy that to your new DR backup server.  
> It should mimic at least the OS/software level as the 
> production server; matching hardware is best.
> 
> If you have that, and you have the media, you can start 
> restoring to DR systems.  IOW, you don't have to wait until 
> you find out the original system was harmed/affected.  Get 
> the DR systems up, but off the network
> - and if you need to move it into service, it's ready to go.  
> You can at least do that for fulls and high level 
> incrementals.  If you find out you need to replace a 
> production system, only the last incrementals you have need 
> to be restored.  (The fulls are usually the time-sinks.)
> 
> In that same vein, if you can copy live data from the 
> production system to the DR system, do that and don't 
> necessarily even worry about an older restore.
> 
> Good luck and Godspeed,
> 
> Dave
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