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Joseph_Lai
Level 4
12 years ago

DR for CAS and MBE servers

I'm working some test cases for DR of a pair of BE3600 appliances. One is setup as Central Admin Server and the other is Managed Backup Exec server. They each have a dedup storage and shared with the...
2012
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Case Study
Recovering
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • CraigV's avatar
    CraigV
    12 years ago

    Hi Joseph,


    1. Correct...if the catalogs and data are located on the CASO, then when it is down, no backups will run on the MMS. I used to run into this situation regularily when I was an engineer, and used the steps below to manually demote the MMS to a stand-alone server:

    * Regedit.exe (backup the registry before making any changes) -->

    * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE --> SOFTWARE --> Symantec --> Backup Exec

    * Look for a key called Database Server. Replace the name of your CASO with the name of your MMS and restart the BE services.

    2. If the MMS is down, I'd simply leave things as-is in the CASO. No need to reconfigure anything when the MMS comes back up again.

    Thanks!

CraigV's avatar
CraigV
Moderator
12 years ago

Hi Joseph,


1. Correct...if the catalogs and data are located on the CASO, then when it is down, no backups will run on the MMS. I used to run into this situation regularily when I was an engineer, and used the steps below to manually demote the MMS to a stand-alone server:

* Regedit.exe (backup the registry before making any changes) -->

* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE --> SOFTWARE --> Symantec --> Backup Exec

* Look for a key called Database Server. Replace the name of your CASO with the name of your MMS and restart the BE services.

2. If the MMS is down, I'd simply leave things as-is in the CASO. No need to reconfigure anything when the MMS comes back up again.

Thanks!