Hello,
You should have plan in mind, i.e Browse policy, retention, cloning,
backup window, directives & operational aspect to name the least.
To test and get familiar with the install, you can use a fresh install of
Legato on a spare server in the Lab, this should give you 30-45 days to be
familiar with it ( no licence's required), you can re-image and re-install
Legato as many time as you like, ideally, it would be good to have a stand
alone LTO3 Tape drive, if the environment are isolated you can do mmrecov
( Dr Guide).
If you do not have spare server , you can use any available Desktop.
If not, just use AFTD or any available Tape device to test some backups,
client install, recover etc.
HTH
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Networker 7.4 SP2 - How to start over
OS Platform: Windows Server 2003 R2 (x86)
Networker Configuration: Server and Storage Node on Same Server
Backup Device: Quantum Scalar 50 with 40 slots (2x LTO-3 drives)
Backup cycles: Weekly full, daily incremental
I bugeted about 8 days to reconfigure this system from a clean install. I
only have 20 clients with a fairly striaght-forward save set. I want to
leverage VSS rather than Open File Manager... something that is installed
right now. How would you recommend I perform the install/recovery in an
isolated test environment? I don't have a spare server or SCSI cards
available. I was going to make a ghost image of the server and then wipe
everything out and go from there. I want to document as much of the
previous configuration information as possible... is there a plain text
file that details the configuration?
I recently took on this job, the last person left in the middle of
configuration. When he left some other people came in on a short-term
basis and made more changes to the system. I have no documentation..
seems like wiping everything out and building from brick one might be the
best opporunity to make sure there is nothing wrong with the
configuration. If I continue to experience these issues, I can contact
EMC to resolve them knowing that the install is clean.
Fazil Saiyed wrote:
> Hello,
> You need to provide more info, i.e OS Platform, Networker configuration,
> backup cycles and the problem you are having, if you want to start over,
> you need to consider the time & timing it would take to be operational
> again, since you are new to Networker i would suggest practicing install
> and recovery under isolated test environment and build a recovery
doc\go
> over DR Guide.
> I would also suggest you break down your current issues and re-install
> desire in separate procedures, if you change the name of the server you
> may have to obtain the licences again ( Need to call EMC).
> How confident are you that if you rebuild the OS and reinstall Legato
the
> problem will be solved, when emc themshelf have not been successful,
have
> you tried escalating the issue within EMC ?
> HTH
>
>
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> I recently inherited a NetWorker infrastructure connected to a 40-slot
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> and I have been having a lot of weird errors and other issues. The
> technicians from EMC have made so many changes at this point, and things
> are still not working properly. I am thinking about clearing the slate.
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> down a NetWorker server, while allow for the off chance that I may need
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