Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.1 windows Flash backup restore

Thanks Justin & ed

That’s great, have selected a raw partition backup and its kicked in straight away. I can put it back to the original location as when I dismount the volume and resync the shadow image pair HDS will take care or mirroring it to that of the primary.

Regards

From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
Sent: 08 January 2009 15:22
To: Clooney, David
Cc: judy_hinchcliffe AT administaff DOT com; jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 6.5.1 windows Flash backup restore

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Clooney, David <david.clooney AT bankofamerica DOT com> wrote:

NBU 6.5.1 Master Solaris 10
NBU 6.5.1 windows 2003 Media

We have process whereas we split an HDS shadow image pair and mount the
secondary volume onto the root of c: on one of our NBU windows media
servers, then take a backup.

i.e. once the process has completed the volume is C:\$voulme

I have setup a flashbackup windows policy with \\.\C:\$volume as the
criteria to backup.

The backup works fine and sails through, and individual file restores
complete successfully too however if I attempt to restore the whole
volume from the backup the restore job just stays in a queued state with
no indication as to whether there is some background processing going
on.

You should be careful here. If you're doing a full volume restore, don't specify a directory tree, especially if you have a *lot* of files (millions). If you do a full volume restore pretending it's a file-based restore, you'll need to map the file list for the volume. We've seen cases where this simply craps out due to memory constraints.

Do a volume-based restore, although the destination volume has to be the exact size as the original source volume. i.e. don't restore /C/ but restore \\.C\:

.../Ed

Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE
ewilts AT ewilts DOT org

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