Nickyxx9
15 years agoLevel 3
PDDO disaster recovery
Netbackup 6.5.5, Puredisk 6.6 (using Puredisk Virtual Appliance)
Attempting DR testing in a virtual environment which reflects live setup.
Site 1:
Netbackup Master Server (Windows 2003) with PDDO installed
Windows 2003 Domain controller/DNS server, also with netbackup client installed
PDVA 6.6.0.2
Netbackup Master Server (Windows 2003) with PDDO installed
Windows 2003 Domain controller/DNS server, also with netbackup client installed
PDVA 6.6.0.2
Site 2:
PDVA 6.0.0.2
"Warm standby" DR master server
PDVA 6.0.0.2
"Warm standby" DR master server
Successfully configured the environment so that the Netbackup client backed up to a storage lifecycle policy which stored primary data on the Site 1 PDVA and replicated to the Site 2 PDVA. Also performed Netbackup catalog backup.
Then simulated a disaster by switching off all servers at site 1 except DC/DNS server.
Successfully completed a full catalog restore onto the warm standby server and all appears well. (Installed the PDDO agent on the warm standby server after installing Netbackup but before restoring the catalog.)
From the catalog I can view the "copy 2" files stored on the site 2 Puredisk server, and have set them to be the primary copy.
However, cannot perform a restore of these files to the client: job fails almost immediately with error code 10 and detailed log shows error 800.
Can't find any documentation on how to configure a restored master server to restore from a Puredisk storage pool so aware I might be missing a piece of configuration. Have tried rerunning pddocfg.exe on the restored master server. If I run pddocfg in "update" mode it succeeds but still can't restore. If I run it in "new" mode it fails (unsurprisingly since the restored master already knows about the storage pool).
I have raised a support call about this but thought I'd see if anyone on the forums has any advice - thanks in advance!
I have raised a support call about this but thought I'd see if anyone on the forums has any advice - thanks in advance!
- Support have got back to me - as I suspected, the only way to restore from an offsite Puredisk storage pool if the original master server is unavailable is to build a new master with a different name and import the Puredisk images into this new server.