EV - FSA Backup Procedure

[GauravAditya]

Hello All,

I am new to this and need help...

What is the best way to backup the Targetted File Server and the Enterprise Vault server if we have NBU and DO NOT have the SQL Agent at the moment?

Please advise.

Regards,

GauravAditya

[Maverik]

Firstly review the administrators guide it will tell you all the EV components etc that require backing up etc.

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/documentation.jsp?language=english&view=manuals&pid=50990

Alsoo the following technote when targeting the file server.

http://support.veritas.com/docs/287761

In regards SQL, why not use SQL backup to disk and then back them up using NBU?

[GauravAditya]

 Scenario: -
EV - 8.0 for File System Archiving
NBU - 6.5 for Backups

Actually, we are trying to run backups through NBU and as we know that we need to place the Indexes and Vault Stores in Backup Mode, here are the scripts that are tested by us and they work absolutely fine: -

bp_start.ev_fsa.bat

powershell -psconsolefile "C:\Program Files\Enterprise Vault\EVShell.psc1" -command "& {set-vaultstorebackupmode -name 'FSVAULT STORE Group' -evservername gfharcfsprod -evobjecttype vaultstoregroup}"
powershell -psconsolefile "C:\Program Files\Enterprise Vault\EVShell.psc1" -command "& {set-indexlocationbackupmode gfharcfsprod}"

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bpend_notify.GFH_EV_FS.bat

powershell -psconsolefile "C:\Program Files\Enterprise Vault\EVShell.psc1" -command "& {clear-vaultstorebackupmode -name 'FSVAULT STORE Group' -evservername gfharcfsprod -evobjecttype vaultstoregroup}"
powershell -psconsolefile "C:\Program Files\Enterprise Vault\EVShell.psc1" -command "& {clear-indexlocationbackupmode gfharcfsprod}"

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both of these scripts are saved in the following location on the EV server: -
c:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\

The thing is that NBU is not triggering these Scripts for some reason. We are new and not too used to the Pre/Post commands in NBU. Are we missing something / configuration?

Please advise on how do we need to backup the File Server also. Any Pre/Post commands that need to be applied on that too ? What are they ?

Please help.

Regards,

GauravAditya

[MichelZ]

Hi

Are you by any chance running 64-bit Windows?

[GauravAditya]

 Hello Michel,

No none of these servers are 64-BIT... 

Regards,

GauravAditya

[GauravAditya]

The scripts if initiated through command line, work absolutely fine...

What is the procedure to get these scripts triggered through NetBackup?

[patrickkuah · Accepted solution]

Hi,


If you simply name the script bpstart_notify.bat, it will run when any policy or schedule is executed on the client; however, you can name the script bpstart_notify.<policy>.bat, or even bpstart_notify.<policy>.<schedule>.bat, and it will only run when a particular policy, or policy/schedule is executed. For example, you might have a script called bpstart_notify.all_windows.weekly_full.bat.

Your "bp_start.ev_fsa.bat" and "bpend_notify.GFH_EV_FS.bat" don't really make sense because...."bp_start.ev_fsa.bat" only runs when your NBU policy  "ev_fsa" start.... and "bpend_notify.GFH_EV_FS.bat" script will be triggered when your NBU policy "GFH_EV_FS" exited.. It can be done though but no one do it this way....

Also, if you do not have SQL agent then you need to dump all EV databases to a location and perform standard backup. This can be easily achieve via SQL maintenance plan.

cheers!

[patrickkuah]

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