MAN / AER postgres db alternate storage

Joe,

DR exports can be sent to another machine using scp for example. Procedure steps are documented on this KB:

https://support.emc.com/kb/192102

If you don't have access these are the steps:

• In order to be able to successfully create an AER DR copy we need first to have at least one tape with space, labelled on the Default pool

• By default the AER DR copy needs to be run manually using the command below but many customers ask support to configure this to run auto

/opt/EMC/avamarer/bin/avamar-er-dr --export --pass=

•In order to run this command automatically we can use the AER internal Avamar cron

crontab –e
 
•And add a line at the end of the cron tab (with the time and frequency we want it to run) with something like the following as an example

34 12 * * * /root/AERdisasterrecovery.sh

•Where “AERdisasterrecovery.sh” is the following script which runs the DR command and does a scp of the snapshot file to an external server in order to keep the DR snapshots safe in the case if we lose the AER server

#!/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/local/avamar/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/avamar/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/apache/bin:/usr/local/ssl/bin:/opt/dell/srvadmin/bin:/opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin

export PATH

SNAPSHOTDIR=/tmp/ER-DR-SNAPSHOT

#create DR copy
/opt/EMC/avamarer/bin/avamar-er-dr --export --pass=

#copies the DR snapshot outside the AER server

File=`ls -latr /opt/EMC/snapshot | grep -e avamar-er-dr-1.1.0-01-Snapshot.zip | tail -1 | awk '{print $9}'`

echo $File
cp /opt/EMC/snapshot/$File $SNAPSHOTDIR
scp $SNAPSHOTDIR/$File root@ :$SNAPSHOTDIR  

•This way we can automatically create snapshots of the AER configuration outside the server which will allow us to fully recover the server in the case of loss

* note that for a fully server recovery we also need the Networker bootstrap which is also generated with the same command but is saved on the Default tape pool

Is there a process to setup a trusted method of sending the DB exports to a Avamar Grid?

Joe Despres

You are right, it is not a normal plugin since it is the DTO export and imports plugins but avtar binary is similar to any avtar running on any Linux system and it can be used to backup DR image via command line as I suggested.

Rgds

Don't seem to have the Normal Linux plugin for a backup of the MAN AER Node ::--->

Plugin                   Linux Avamar Extended Retention Export(1024)

Initial Install Date     2015-05-08 11:44:31 EDT

Last Version Registered  2015-05-08 11:44:31 EDT

Last Successful Backup   N/A

Plugin                   Linux Avamar Extended Retention Import(1034)

Initial Install Date     2015-05-08 11:44:31 EDT

Last Version Registered  2015-05-08 11:44:31 EDT

Last Successful Backup   N/A

Plugin                   Extended Retention Restore(1025)

Initial Install Date     2015-05-08 11:44:31 EDT

Last Version Registered  2015-05-08 11:44:31 EDT

Last Successful Backup   N/A