Centra and Safety Copies best option

Hi

Safety copies will be removed once the object was replicated by the Centera.

Maybe there is some configuration fault here.

You will have to reference both of your centeras in the PEA file, I think.

/Michel

Between, you can find an "official" statement here:

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Thanks

I will have a look at the PEA file and have a word with the EMC guy and see if he can confirm they are replicating and get back with the result

J

It appears that the centeras were not replicating or replication was paused.

Using Show Replication Detail command on the Centera command line showed this and resuming it did not work it just fails again so EMC are going to have to come in and sort it by the looks of it.

All we had was a concatenated PEA file for the access to both centeras from EV and it looks like we need seaparate files for the replication according to an EMC consultant.

At least it explains the safety copies not being removed

Thanks for the comments and replies

J

We had the same issues on a set of Gen4 Centera's that were set to replicate, we had the appropriate PEA file for access via Enterprise Vault, however they did not have the PEA file that is used for replication between the storage pools on the Centera.

Another tidbit of information.... that "show replication detail" command you referenced is something you want to do on a daily basis.  If replication is not running between the Centera frames, then you also will not be able to delete.  When EV issues a delete command on the primary Centera, that Centera then issues a delete to the remote Centera and waits till it finishes the remote delete before it issues the local delete.  You will see these queue up in the "Replication Deletes" section of Centera Viewer.

Ok

We had EMC come in and reconfigure replication and got a new PEA file and did another test archive

This worked and can see them using Search archives etc

However in the email mailbox the safety copies are still there

When do they get removed? 

I have seen the centeras replicate the data across but the safety copies are not removed

Do I need to perform a backup of the EV server indexes etc in order to force this or how are there any

Remember that this is still in test / pre pilot at the moment and just using test mailboxes so no live data.. yet

Thanks in advance

J

SolarP

Make sure the archiving task is running.

The Safety copies should get removed immediately after replication.

 /Michel

Yep Archiving Task is running and just restarted

Configuration as below

Under the Vault Store I have Remove Safety Copies after backup set

Under Vault store partition I have the Share Archive settings set. Collections not enabled and Retention set to never at the moment as we are using test data  

Is there anywhere I can check to see what it is doing

J

J

This Technote isn't pertaining to your issue but gives a list of what permissions we need when working with Centera and replica's - http://support.veritas.com/docs/296186.

The safety copy should be removed once the primary has replicated, and we then check the replica using the "Clip Exists" and get this clip info from the StorageFileWatch table. Once the clip is checked, and is there, this should then place a request on the A1 MSMQ for the associated Exchange server, and the Archiving Task should then pick this up and post-process it.

Your PEA file should have Read, Write, Delete and Clip Exists FOR BOTH PRIMARY AND REPLICAS. There is also a registry key which you could set:-

FileWatchEMCCenteraScanInterval

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\SOFTWARE
\KVS
\Enterprise Vault
\Storage

DWORD value with a value set to a number of minutes.
If the value is set to 0, no rescanning is performed. If the value does not exist, the rescan is done every 60 minutes. Storage Service is started, the StorageFileWatch process scans the entera clips to check that they have been replicated from a primary entera to a replica Centera. This registry key sets the frequency with which these scans occur.

You may also want to use collections as this will improve the rate that data is replicated.

J,

When the Archiving task runs and you have "Remove Safety Copies After Backup" selected on the Vault Store, the file is replicated to your secondary Centera about 2.5 minutes after hitting your Primary. You should be able to see files flowing through in the "Show Replication Detail" command on your Primary Centera. 

You can run "Show Pool Detail <YOUR_POOL_NAME>" on both the Primary and Secondary Centera's to see the size and number of clips increasing. 

Once the file has been replicated, the EV API should be getting return info from the Centera to indicate replication is succesful.

The next time you run the Archiving task, EV will remove the safety copy for files that have been replicated.

If this is not working, your replication may not have been configured correctly. One thing you can check is when you run the "Show Pool Detail <YOUR_POOL_NAME>" command, you should see at least 2 profiles listed, one for the profile EV is using via the PEA file, and a Replicate (or similar name) pool that is used for replication.

You can also run the Centera Verify app, using your concatenated PEA file, this has the option of testing replica's. When it runs, it will take about 3 minutes to find and delete the replica, so be patient.

Having said all that, we are not using safety copies for email archiving but it is working as above for our FSA archiving.

HTH