Thanks for the reply. Not sure how standard of a procedure it is. I cannot find any documentation on this other than doing a normal bootstrap recovery, but it seems these documents assume the original server is gone. I have talked to numerous EMC resources and nobody has a for sure answer on how this works or if it will impact Production.
I know i can recover from a clone, what i was hoping to find out if there is any other way to recover from this data other than running through this bootstrap recovery process.
In general, this is nothing else but standard procedure.
Of course you can recover from a clone.
The bootstrap recovery is the fastest and the cleanest way to recover the important NW databases.
Just make sure that the production server will not access the clone media and that they will not talk to each other as both servers will have the same name.
The NW servers have their own 'encapsulated' environment. So they can work in parallel for themselves.
The DR process is nothing else but a 'scripted' way for an unexperienced use. The intention is to give the user a tool which reduces the interaction to a minimum to avoid user mistakes.
You may of course manually run the same process as follows:
- Install NW on the new host (same OS)
- Stop the daemons
- Manually delete the following DB directories and copy them from the original server
- /nsr/res
- /nsr/mm
( - /nsr/index) to the new NW server
- Start NetWorker
It should come up normally. Most likely your auth codes are invalid so you have to re-register them.
morriz1
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July 26th, 2017 09:00
Thanks for the reply. Not sure how standard of a procedure it is. I cannot find any documentation on this other than doing a normal bootstrap recovery, but it seems these documents assume the original server is gone. I have talked to numerous EMC resources and nobody has a for sure answer on how this works or if it will impact Production.
I know i can recover from a clone, what i was hoping to find out if there is any other way to recover from this data other than running through this bootstrap recovery process.
Thanks
bingo.1
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July 26th, 2017 09:00
In general, this is nothing else but standard procedure.
Of course you can recover from a clone.
The bootstrap recovery is the fastest and the cleanest way to recover the important NW databases.
Just make sure that the production server will not access the clone media and that they will not talk to each other as both servers will have the same name.
The NW servers have their own 'encapsulated' environment. So they can work in parallel for themselves.
bingo.1
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July 26th, 2017 23:00
The DR process is nothing else but a 'scripted' way for an unexperienced use. The intention is to give the user a tool which reduces the interaction to a minimum to avoid user mistakes.
You may of course manually run the same process as follows:
- Install NW on the new host (same OS)
- Stop the daemons
- Manually delete the following DB directories and copy them from the original server
- /nsr/res
- /nsr/mm
( - /nsr/index) to the new NW server
- Start NetWorker
It should come up normally. Most likely your auth codes are invalid so you have to re-register them.