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[Veritas-bu] alt media server restore..... Allocation failed error

2007-02-06 10:47:02
Subject: [Veritas-bu] alt media server restore..... Allocation failed error
From: pkeating at bank-banque-canada.ca (Paul Keating)
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:47:02 -0500
I was doing this as part of a DR test, Since I have 1 Master and 4 media 
servers at my main site, and only a single server at the DR site.

I'm trying to establish a fairly simple procedure for performing restores at 
the DR site via that one master, from images that were backed up from any of 
the 5 servers at HO.

Paul

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlightner at water.com] 
> Sent: February 6, 2007 10:01 AM
> To: Paul Keating; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] alt media server restore..... 
> Allocation failed error
> 
> 
> Normally we do this for database refreshes as mentioned so 
> wouldn't run into that issue as both would be reachable.  
> 
> I can't say for sure it would work if the original was 
> unavailable but *think* we've done it in the past when 
> needing to restore data from previously retired media servers.
> 
> Of course if one of the media servers in your configuration 
> is down it causes issues with timeouts in trying to scan 
> things so maybe that is what you were seeing.  In the *think* 
> cases above we wouldn't have experienced that as we would 
> have removed the retired server from media server configuration.   
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Keating [mailto:pkeating at bank-banque-canada.ca] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 9:27 AM
> To: Jeff Lightner; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] alt media server restore..... 
> Allocation failed error
> 
> Should this work even if the original media server is unreachable?
> I've attempted this a couple times and found that when trying to
> restore, I would get as far as the media required would be listed, but
> the robot would never select it....It would sit there waiting 
> for media
> to mount.
> 
> Paul
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
> > [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf 
> > Of Jeff Lightner
> > Sent: February 5, 2007 4:25 PM
> > To: Jeff Cleverley; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Allocation failed error
> > 
> <SNIP>
> > 
> > Was the tape originally backed up on the media server 
> you're trying to
> > restore to?  If not you may unintentionally be doing a 
> network restore
> > where it is actually mounting on the original server and 
> > restoring from
> > there via network.   To get around this you set the
> > FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER option in bp.conf e.g.
> > FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER = <original media/master> <target
> > media/master>.  You then have to run bpadm g (global) m (modify) d
> > (notify request daemon) to reread the bp.conf - this is done on the
> > master server.
> > 
> <SNIP>
> > 
> > We do this kind of cross server restore in our HP-UX 
> environment on a
> > disgustingly regular basis mainly for database refreshes.
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