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Consolidate backups to one Datadomain / Replication to identical node
Hi there,
we´re currently having a setup of one Avamar-Node connected to three different Datadomain-Units and want to consolidate all that backup stuff to one new DD6800.
The most easiest way of doing an mtree-replication won´t work due to the three different mtrees of three different systems I guess.
I was wondering if there´s any other way of achieving this - as all backups will expire within the next 12 months, it would be sufficient if we would do a "local replication" for example (so set up the Avamar-Node as target for itself and set the new dd6800 as default replication target). Backups would then only be visible under /Replicate but as this is only for limited time, it would be acceptable.
However if I try to set up such a scenario, the job is failing with an (expected) error "source and destination servers are identical. Use --checkservers=false to force replication - But even if I set that checkservers=false in the advanced options of the replication set, I still get the same error. Any ideas about that?
Thanks
Markus
Pawan_Kumawat
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November 28th, 2018 21:00
Hi Markus,
Are you not getting any errors saying invalid flag? Or do you see in the logs that this flag has been passed successfully?
If you can attach activity logs here, that will be helpful for the troubleshooting.
Regards,
Pawan Kumawat
markus.wendler
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November 29th, 2018 04:00
Hi Pawan,
I would assume it was skipped from what I´ve seen:
Errors and Exceptions
*********** /usr/local/avamar/var/client/MOD-1543424024950-1008-Replicate-avreplscript.log ***********
Log #6: avrepl log 2018-11-28 17:54:13 CET [18.1.100-33 Linux-x86_64]
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <5008>: Logging to /usr/local/avamar/var/client/MOD-1543424024950-1008-Replicate.log
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <6673>: CTL listening on port 48552
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <10684>: Setting ctl message version to 3 (from 1)
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <16136>: Setting ctl max message size to 268435456
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <42041>: Workorder received:
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <5527>: - cid:0
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <7083>: - cid=2888b50ed9f35e9aa3c531582675ce94a299eb93
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <42044>: - targets=/AVI_BACKUPS /EM_BACKUPS /MC_BACKUPS /EBR_BACKUPS /clients/EMCLab/emc-admin.emclab.de /.avamar_metadata /clients/EMCLab/.avamar_metadata /clients/.avamar_metadata, size=8
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <7084>: target[0]=/AVI_BACKUPS
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <7084>: target[1]=/EM_BACKUPS
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <7084>: target[2]=/MC_BACKUPS
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <7084>: target[3]=/EBR_BACKUPS
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <7084>: target[4]=/clients/EMCLab/emc-admin.emclab.de
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <7084>: target[5]=/.avamar_metadata
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <7084>: target[6]=/clients/EMCLab/.avamar_metadata
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <7084>: target[7]=/clients/.avamar_metadata
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <42082>: The 'force-move' flag is on by default.
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <42516>: Generating certificates for destination server 'ave.labwi.sva.de' without sysdir
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <42064>: Replication generate certificate result: avagent Info <5008>: Logging to /usr/local/avamar/var/client/MOD-1543424024950-1008-Replicate-avagent.log
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <42516>: Generating certificates for destination server 'ave.labwi.de' with sysdir
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <42064>: Replication generate certificate result: avagent Info <5008>: Logging to /usr/local/avamar/var/client/MOD-1543424024950-1008-Replicate-avagent.log
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Error <42050>: Replication error: avmaint Info <5008>: Logging to /usr/local/avamar/var/client/MOD-1543424024950-1008-Replicate-avreplscript.log
avmaint Info <5993>: - Connect: Connected to 10.10.118.200:29000, Priv=1, SSL Cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
avmaint Info <5008>: Logging to /usr/local/avamar/var/client/MOD-1543424024950-1008-Replicate-avreplscript.log
avmaint Info <5993>: - Connect: Connected to 10.10.118.200:29000, Priv=1, SSL Cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
ERROR: Source and Destination servers are identical. Use --checkservers=false to force replication.
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Error <42046>: Replication of /AVI_BACKUPS /EM_BACKUPS /MC_BACKUPS /EBR_BACKUPS /clients/EMCLab/emc-admin.emclab.de /.avamar_metadata /clients/EMCLab/.avamar_metadata /clients/.avamar_metadata aborted due to avmaint Info <5008>: Logging to /usr/local/avamar/var/client/MOD-1543424024950-1008-Replicate-avreplscript.log
avmaint Info <5993>: - Connect: Connected to 10.10.118.200:29000, Priv=1, SSL Cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
avmaint Info <5008>: Logging to /usr/local/avamar/var/client/MOD-1543424024950-1008-Replicate-avreplscript.log
avmaint Info <5993>: - Connect: Connected to 10.10.118.200:29000, Priv=1, SSL Cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
ERROR: Source and Destination servers are identical. Use --checkservers=false to force replication.
2018-11-28 17:54:13 avrepl Info <42100>: Final summary generated subwork 0, canceled/aborted 0, exitcode 157
END avrepl log 2018-11-28 17:54:18 CET (0 warnings, 2 errors, 0 fatal errors)
Steve_MelbAU
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December 16th, 2018 21:00
Obviously you are not the only one:
https://community.emc.com/message/1008002?et=watches.email.thread#1008002
I also wonder where is the right place and how exactly to set this option checkserver?
I need to do the samething, migrating data from old DD to new DD on same Avamar, still planning the steps before we do this project.
Seems the setting can be set in different location depend on which version of Avamar it is?