Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Multiple Master for Single Client

2009-02-12 15:21:52
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Multiple Master for Single Client
From: "Rosenkoetter, Gabriel" <Gabriel.Rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz>
To: "'judy_hinchcliffe AT administaff DOT com'" <judy_hinchcliffe AT administaff DOT com>, "qureshiumar AT rediffmail DOT com" <qureshiumar AT rediffmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:06:39 -0500
As I said, the only hitch would be that if you were to use bplist/bprestore (or 
the Backup, Archive, and Restore GUI) on the client in question, you would have 
to explicitly switch the master server to specify the old one in bp.conf / the 
registry.

Server-directed backups and restores will work as expected, but one should 
expect oddities with the behavior of the Windows archive bit if the client is 
Windows and backups are performed to both masters (generally a Bad Idea anyway).


--
gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Senior Systems Engineer
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556


-----Original Message-----
From: judy_hinchcliffe AT administaff DOT com [mailto:judy_hinchcliffe AT 
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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 3:03 PM
To: Rosenkoetter, Gabriel; qureshiumar AT rediffmail DOT com
Cc: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Multiple Master for Single Client

I have had clients work with 2 master before.

Had old master - that I kept around to do restores until the images
expired.
But new master was doing all the backups.

So for the clients - I change the master on the server list to my new
master, but kept the name of the old master in the "other server list"


I was able to backup ok, and I was able to restore ok.


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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Multiple Master for Single Client

You'll need to specify your question with much more detail than you've
provided before anyone could possibly answer it.

In general, however, although it is possible for a given NetBackup
client to believe that various hosts are valid servers, only the first
one listed in bp.conf (or in the Windows registry) is believed to be a
master. That mostly relates to with which host bplist, bprestore, and so
forth will communicate to query the catalog, less with whether a client
will send data if a server tells it to.

--
gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Senior Systems Engineer
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556


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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Multiple Master for Single Client


Any suggestions pls.

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