Robot redundancy

[david_adir]

Does any one know solution for Robot redundancy?

1. If I present the robot to Netbackup thru 2 different HBA (and different path . . .), can NBU use both of the paths ?

2. can I use any other driver/software that will enable Robot redundancy?

3. Can I acquire this feature by useing Robot that can recieve commands thru IP as well as FC ?

[Stumpr2]

David,
I do not think you can do this because of the robot number assignments...

However, if you are using high availability clustering, you can set the cluster to failover if the library daemon fails on the current active node via cluster_config

[zippy]

David,

I take it your trying to setup two servers in a (cluster) that will be used to run the same robot, I would think that the two servers in the cluster also share the Veritas database, of course in a locked mode (using clustering software), meaning one server is the master and the other server is the failover. If this is the case then yes each server would be able to see the robot and each server would have a different device path to the same robot.

As for question 3... acquire a command through Fibre Channel within the SAN only data uses this PATH.

JD