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- Page 1 Disaster Recovery on the Sun Cobalt™ Qube 3 Appliance User Manual...
- Page 2 Sun. Sun, Sun Microsystems, le logo Sun, Sun Cobalt et le logo Sun Cobalt sont des marques de fabrique ou des marques déposées de Sun Microsystems, Inc. aux Etats-Unis et dans d’autres pays.
- Page 3 UNIX est une marque déposée aux Etats-Unis et dans d'autres pays et licenciée exclusivement par X/ Open Company, Ltd. Legato NetWorker est une marque déposée de Legato Systems, Inc. LA DOCUMENTATION EST FOURNIE “EN L’ETAT” ET TOUTES AUTRES CONDITIONS, DECLARATIONS ET GARANTIES EXPRESSES OU TACITES SONT FORMELLEMENT EXCLUES, DANS LA MESURE AUTORISEE PAR LA LOI APPLICABLE, Y COMPRIS NOTAMMENT TOUTE GARANTIE IMPLICITE RELATIVE A LA QUALITE MARCHANDE, A L’APTITUDE A UNE UTILISATION PARTICULIERE OU A L’ABSENCE DE CONTREFAÇON.
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Page 5: Table Of Contents
General notes regarding backup services Knox Arkeia Tailoring the backup service Files associated with Knox Arkeia tailoring Backing up a Sun Cobalt Qube 3 appliance with Knox Arkeia Performing disaster recovery of a Sun Cobalt Qube 3 appliance with Knox Arkeia... - Page 6 Performing disaster recovery on a Sun Cobalt Qube 3 appliance with Veritas NetBackup Preparing for disaster recovery Performing a disaster-recovery operation Configuring client agents on the Sun Cobalt Qube 3 appliance Configuring Knox Arkeia Configuring Legato NetWorker Configuring Veritas NetBackup...
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Page 7: Disaster Recovery On The Sun Cobalt™ Qube 3 Appliance
How disaster recovery works For the Sun Cobalt Qube 3 appliance, the term disaster recovery means restoring the appliance after performing an operating-system (OS) restore operation which wipes the hard drive clean and returns it to a factory-fresh state. -
Page 8: Locking The Ui Databases
Disaster Recovery on the Sun Cobalt™ Qube 3 Appliance The approach used to recover the configuration database using Knox Arkeia and Veritas NetBackup works as follows: Before a backup operation begins, the pre-backup script cobalt_prebackup creates an archive of the configuration database in the directory... -
Page 9: General Steps To Perform Disaster Recovery
The general procedure for performing disaster recovery is as follows: 1. Perform an OS restore to wipe the hard disk drive and return the Sun Cobalt Qube 3 appliance to a factory-fresh state. 2. Configure the appliance through the Setup Wizard and return it to the network. -
Page 10: General Notes Regarding Backup Services
Disaster Recovery on the Sun Cobalt™ Qube 3 Appliance General notes regarding backup services The following recommendations are stressed for configuring your backup service: 1. Backup systems are very sensitive to time. If possible, configure the appliance to use a network time protocol (NTP) server to set the clock on the appliance. -
Page 11: Knox Arkeia
Tailoring the backup service Server-side tailoring is required for Knox Arkeia. Arkeia performs backups with groups of clients called savepacks. When adding a Sun Cobalt Qube 3 appliance to a savepack on the Knox Arkeia backup server, the tree options must be modified to use a pre-backup and post-backup command. -
Page 12: Files Associated With Knox Arkeia Tailoring
To back up your appliance with Knox Arkeia, you must first configure and enable the Arkeia agent on the appliance. For more information, see “Configuring client agents on the Sun Cobalt Qube 3 appliance” on page 16. Backups are started by using the Knox Arkeia UI. Once a backup of an appliance... -
Page 13: Appliance With Knox Arkeia
Arkeia server. Preparing for disaster recovery Prepare your Sun Cobalt Qube 3 appliance for disaster recovery by performing the following steps: 1. Perform an OS restore to wipe the hard disk drive and return the appliance to a factory-fresh state. -
Page 14: Performing A Disaster-Recovery Operation
Disaster Recovery on the Sun Cobalt™ Qube 3 Appliance Performing a disaster-recovery operation After completing the preparation steps in the previous section, the Sun Cobalt Qube 3 appliance is now ready to be restored. The restoration options on the Knox Arkeia backup server should include “Files modified since backup date”... -
Page 15: Legato Networker
No server-side tailoring is required for Legato NetWorker other than adding the client to the backup server. Important: When adding a Sun Cobalt Qube 3 appliance to a Legato NetWorker backup server, select “UNIX® Standard Directives” when creating the appliance client resource. -
Page 16: Backing Up A Sun Cobalt Qube 3 Appliance With Legato Networker
To back up your appliance with Legato NetWorker, you must first configure and enable the NetWorker agent on the appliance. For more information, see “Configuring client agents on the Sun Cobalt Qube 3 appliance” on page 16. Sun Microsystems recommends specifying the “All” saveset when using Legato NetWorker. -
Page 17: Performing A Disaster-Recovery Operation
6. Click Save. The table refreshes and displays the new configuration. Performing a disaster-recovery operation After completing the preparation steps in the previous section, the Sun Cobalt Qube 3 appliance is now ready to be restored. Restore the file systems for your appliance in the following order:... -
Page 18: Veritas Netbackup
Disaster Recovery on the Sun Cobalt™ Qube 3 Appliance Veritas NetBackup Tailoring the backup service No server-side tailoring is required for Veritas NetBackup. Pre- and post-backup scripts are already installed and are run automatically by the NetBackup client. See Table 3 for a list of files associated with the Veritas NetBackup software. -
Page 19: Backing Up A Sun Cobalt Qube 3 Appliance With Veritas Netbackup
To back up your appliance with Veritas NetBackup, you must first configure and enable the NetBackup agent on the appliance. For more information, see “Configuring client agents on the Sun Cobalt Qube 3 appliance” on page 16. Backups are started by using the Veritas NetBackup UI. Once a backup of an... -
Page 20: Appliance With Veritas Netbackup
NetBackup server. Preparing for disaster recovery Prepare your Sun Cobalt Qube 3 appliance for disaster recovery by performing the following steps: 1. Perform an OS restore to wipe the hard disk drive and return the appliance to a factory-fresh state. -
Page 21: Performing A Disaster-Recovery Operation
Veritas NetBackup Performing a disaster-recovery operation After completing the preparation steps in the previous section, the appliance is now ready for disaster recovery. When recovering your Sun Cobalt Qube 3 appliance, include only the following files and directories: /home /root .nsr... -
Page 22: Configuring Client Agents On The Sun Cobalt Qube 3 Appliance
To use a third-party backup solution, you must first enable the agent and enter the information for the backup server on the Sun Cobalt Qube 3 appliance. The following paragraphs explain how to do this for each of the backup solutions. -
Page 23: Configuring Legato Networker
Configuring client agents on the Sun Cobalt Qube 3 appliance Configuring Legato NetWorker To configure the Legato NetWorker backup solution: 1. On the Server Desktop UI, select Administration > Maintenance > Legato NetWorker. The “Legato NetWorker Backup Settings” table appears. - Page 24 Disaster Recovery on the Sun Cobalt™ Qube 3 Appliance P/N 070-00337-02 (June 2001)
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