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Avamar and raw devices mapping
Hello
We want to snapshot our virtual machines (vsphere 4) but don't want to snapshot the raw devices disk (because they are backuped by the agent). (Avamar 5.3)
We have tried today, only the local disks have been snapshoted but when we want to restore, avamar requests disk space to restore raw device disk, even if we want to restore only local drives. And we can't continue the restore process.
Is there any way to restore only the local drives, excluding the raw device ?
Thanks
Christophe
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rpervan
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Posted January 21st, 2011 07:00
Hello Christophe,
Maybe additional configuration is required for this action ... so you could try to change parameter "allow_duplicate_client_names" in /usr/local/avamar/var/mc/server_data/prefs/mcserver.xml file .
instead of "false" add "true"
1. Load the admin OpenSSH
# su - admin
# ssh-agent bash
# ssh-add ~admin/.ssh/admin_key
type a passphrase "P3t3rPan"
2. Stop the MCS:
# dpnctl stop mcs
3. open /usr/local/avamar/var/mc/server_data/prefs/mcserver.xml with "vi"
4. Set the "true" on "allow_duplicate_client_names"
5. Start MCS:
#dpnctl start mcs
more info >>> EMC AVAMAR FOR VMWARE GUIDE ..
hope this helps .
-R