PowerProtect Data Manager 19.10 Administration and User Guide

Recovering the Search Engine from a DR backup

PowerProtect Data Manager automatically restores the Search cluster after disaster recovery of the PowerProtect Data Manager system is complete. If the PowerProtect Data Manager system could not restore the Search cluster automatically, use the steps in this procedure to restore only the Search cluster through the REST API. Recovery of a Search cluster must be performed on an operational PowerProtect Data Manager system. Only the Administrator role can restore the Search cluster.

1. Log in to the PowerProtect Data Manager user interface as a user with the Administrator role.
   Use the same credentials that you used before PowerProtect Data Manager was restored.
2. Locate the backup manifest file:
   1. Connect to the PowerProtect Data Manager console as an admin user.
   2. Browse the directory path /data01/server_backups/<PowerProtect Data Manager Hostname>_<NodeID>.
   3. Run grep -Rnwa -e '<Name>' --include=*.manifest
3. Open the backup manifest file.
4. Locate the Components section, which contains Search Cluster.
   The values for the following fields that are listed in the Search Cluster section are needed for the POST call in the next step.

   • Name=id
   • BackupPath, which contains <NFSHost>:/data/col1/<NFSExportFolder>/<NFSDirPath>/SearchCluster

     For example:
       

     "Components": [
             { "name": "SearchCluster",
     {{          "id": "c25290d9-a88c-4a15-9e7c-656f186209ae", }}
     {{          "version": "v2", }}
     {{          "backupPath": "10.25.12.74:/data/col1/serverdr_backup/vm-qa-0091_6ce36793-3379-45d2-84bd-d8bde69e52d4/SearchCluster", }}
     {{          "backupStatus": "SUCCESSFUL", }}
     {{          "backupsEnabled": true }}
     {
     
     {        }
     }}
     {{ ]}}

     where:
     • NFSHost = "10.25.12.74"
     • NFSExport = "/data/col1/serverdr_backup"
     • NFSDirPath = "vm-qa-0091_6ce36793-3379-45d2-84bd-d8bde69e52d4/SearchCluster"
     • Name = "c25290d9-a88c-4a15-9e7c-656f186209ae"
5. Use the REST API to run the following POST call:

   https://<PowerProtect Data Manager IP>:8443/api/v2/search-clusters/component-backups/
   <Name>/restore 
   
   {
   
     "ddDirectoryPath" : "<NFSDirPath>",
   
     "ddHost" : "<NFSHost>",
   
     "ddNfsExportName" : "<NFSExport>"
   
   }

6. To monitor the status of the restore process, in the PowerProtect Data Manager UI, select Jobs > System Jobs and look for a job with the description, Restoring backup Search Node.