Cannot backup Netware Cluster Volumes since upgrade from 9.1

[Sean_Glover]

Since upgrading I can no longer see Netware Cluster volumes listed in the 'Netware agents' (formerly 'Netware SMS') list. The Cluster is listed but when you drill down you only see the server that is hosting the cluster and not the cluster volumes.

By altering the TSA configuration file (TSA.CFG) on the Netware server to disable clusters I have found that the cluster volumes are now listed under the server; this is not ideal since if the server fails and the cluster volumes move across to another node the backup will no longer be able to see these volumes and the backup will fail.

Please help...

[John_Chisari]

You cannot backup the volumes from the cluster node with BE 10.

As you found you can only backup the volumes when tsa config is set to OFF and you select the volumes from the physical servers.

Why this is so? With BE 10, we are now using ndmp protocol to do the backups. This requires a remote agent running on the server (the remote agent is the same one that comes with BENW 9.1). As you can't run the remote agent from the cluster - you also can't do backups of volumes directly from the cluster.
BE 10 will not fall back to use TSA's only like Netware remote agents in earlier version of BE for windows - which is why earlier versions worked.

[Renuka_-]

Hello,
Hope the previous reply has answered your query, please revert with any more queries.


Additional Information :
For information on the recent VERITAS Backup Exec security vulnerabilities, including links to the downloads for the necessary hotfixes, please refer to the following document:
Patch summary for Security Advisories VX05-001, VX05-002, VX05-003, VX05-005, VX05-006, VX05-007

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/277429.htm

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