CPS Failover Process?

[Forrest_Smith]

I've been running a test CPS environment successfully, keeping a continuously mirrored copy of a "production" server on the CPS server. I've also got BE 10d running in a real environment for my disaster-prevention backups. I'm curious as to how I would go about doing this: Say the production server fails, leaving me with the CPS "mirror" in the interim until I can fix the hardware and restore from the backups. How do I fail-over my users to the CPS server during the downtime; and how do I track the changes they make so I can get them back to the production server once it is back in service?

[Gauri_Ketkar]

Hi,

-Please update us about the your Setup ...

In this situation which is the destination and Source Server ?

-Do you also have BE remote agent running on CPS Server ?


Update us on the same and revert for any further Query
Hope this will help you


Thank you
Gauri


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[Forrest_Smith]

Let's see if I can explain this clearly:

Servername: SEEME
Server SEEME, function: Active Directory Windows 2003 File Server
Configuration: 1 TB storage array
Server Location: Closet A
Activity: Users access their files via server SEEME
BE function: Remote Agent is running on server SEEME

Servername: BACKGROUND
Server BACKGROUND function: Backup Exec Server; CPS server
BACKGROUND configuration: Windows 2003 server, 10 TB Disk attached
Server location: Closet B
Server BACKGROUND "can" have remote agent running

General Practice:
Files are backed up to a tape drive hosted on server BACKGROUND.
Files are continuously replicated from server SEEME to a "backup destination" (CPS terminology) on the disk array on BACKGROUND.
Question: Can files, with appropriate permissions, be backed up from BACKGROUND, or must they be backed up from SEEME to retain permissions?

Scenario:
Server SEEME fails.

Immediate Action:
I would like for users to be able to access their files from the "backup destination" on BACKGROUND.

Eventual solution:
Rebuild Server SEEME hardware. Restore file system from most recent tape backup. Copy files "changed" during outage to Server SEEME.

[Gauri_Ketkar]

Hi,

Question: Can files, with appropriate permissions, be backed up from BACKGROUND, or must they be backed up from SEEME to retain permissions?
*from SEEME

Whereas as per your setup you can also perform local Backups of BACKGROUND and still backup all the files to tape !!



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Hope this will help you


Thank you
Gauri


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[Forrest_Smith]

Not sure that I could back up files with proper permissions is those files don't have the proper permissions. This isn't really a backup question per se, however.

[shweta_rege]

Hello,

Kindly check if the files, with appropriate permissions, can be backed up from BACKGROUND.


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