You are correct, First make a backup policy taht will write to the DataDomain-device and in taht backup policy you can make another rule to clone data to physical tape right after backup is completed.
Please also remember to Make a checkpoint discovery and backup policy of all you'r VBA proxy servers , this way all config on the VBA proxy is saved in case of D/R of the VBA appliance.
The D/R scenario for VBA is the same as for any other application you wish to protect.
This is what I do at customer sites:
1) Backup all VM's with VBA once a day.
2) Clone all VM's to a 3rd site with physical tapes , once a day.
3) Backup and Clone VBA checkpoint config once a day.
4) Backup Vcenter server once a day.
5) Backup Networker server once a day.
6) Save networker bootstrap once a day.
If you have backed up this information you can D/R Vmware machines, Virtual Center, VBA proxys and NetWorker server.
Unfortunately we don't have a datadomain device, we use an HP VTL. That is the part I'm stuck on, it seems like without the datadomain to act as a go between there is no easy way to reliably get the data off to tape.
I would really appreciate if you could please help me.
We backup and clone all our VM's once a day, and we backup and clone VBA Checkpoing config once a day too.
However, our vcenter server is also a VM, for that reason I am wondering if we should use VADP to backup our vcenter server to make sure that we can recover vcenter in case VBA appliance is not available.
iimnordic
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Hi,
You are correct, First make a backup policy taht will write to the DataDomain-device and in taht backup policy you can make another rule to clone data to physical tape right after backup is completed.
Please also remember to Make a checkpoint discovery and backup policy of all you'r VBA proxy servers , this way all config on the VBA proxy is saved in case of D/R of the VBA appliance.
The D/R scenario for VBA is the same as for any other application you wish to protect.
This is what I do at customer sites:
1) Backup all VM's with VBA once a day.
2) Clone all VM's to a 3rd site with physical tapes , once a day.
3) Backup and Clone VBA checkpoint config once a day.
4) Backup Vcenter server once a day.
5) Backup Networker server once a day.
6) Save networker bootstrap once a day.
If you have backed up this information you can D/R Vmware machines, Virtual Center, VBA proxys and NetWorker server.
mradamk
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June 4th, 2014 10:00
It may be possible to leverage the ADM(e) utility available at https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-7910
The process involves staging the VM’s to a staging disk area from where it can be automatically backed up to tape as a FS backup.
It’s not intended for an every day type scenario, rather its for a once per week/month depending on the data size. Your existing
Networker infrastructure could be leveraged normally.
regards,
Adam
Hall_j
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June 4th, 2014 10:00
Unfortunately we don't have a datadomain device, we use an HP VTL. That is the part I'm stuck on, it seems like without the datadomain to act as a go between there is no easy way to reliably get the data off to tape.
bingo.1
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August 27th, 2014 05:00
I am pretty sure that this will not work because these are different methods.
Let me explain it using the NW terminology: " You cannot use one ASM for backups and another one for restores".
However, you can still create a standard filesystem backup scenario which does not need the VBA appliance.
This is also useful if you want to restore single files without VBA.
jrglopez
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August 27th, 2014 05:00
Excuse me for disturbing you.
I would really appreciate if you could please help me.
We backup and clone all our VM's once a day, and we backup and clone VBA Checkpoing config once a day too.
However, our vcenter server is also a VM, for that reason I am wondering if we should use VADP to backup our vcenter server to make sure that we can recover vcenter in case VBA appliance is not available.
Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards,
Jordi
jrglopez
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August 27th, 2014 06:00
Thank you very much Bingo for your feedback.
However, I don't know what I should do in case my vcenter (VM) server gets corrupted and I wanted to restore my vcenter server from scratch.
As far as I know, I wouldn't be able to restore it from VBA, because vcenter must be available for VBA to work.
Should I keep a clone (powered off) of my vcenter (VM) server just in case?
Should I take advantage of VADP to backup only my vcenter (VM) server?
Best regards,
Jordi