HP B6960-90078 Advanced Recovery Tasks, Restoring the Microsoft Cluster Server Specifics, 490

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Disaster Recovery

Advanced Recovery Tasks

Advanced Recovery Tasks

This section provides explanation of the steps you will need to take if you want to perform advanced recovery tasks such as restoring Microsoft Cluster Server and Internet Information Server.

Restoring the Microsoft Cluster Server Specifics

This section provides explanation of the steps you will need to take if you want to perform disaster recovery of a Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS). For concepts and general information please refer to the clustering section in the HP OpenView Storage Data Protector Concepts Guide and “Cluster Integrations with Data Protector” on page 613 in the HP OpenView Storage Data Protector Administrator’s Guide.

Select the disaster recovery method that is appropriate for your cluster and include it in your disaster recovery plan. Consider the limitations and requirements pertaining to disaster recovery methods before deciding which method to use. Execute tests from the test plan.

Possible Scenarios

There are two possible scenarios for disaster recovery of a MSCS:

•at least one of the nodes is up and running

•all nodes in the cluster have experienced a disaster

MSCS can be recovered using any disaster recovery method except for Disk Delivery Disaster Recovery. All specifics, limitations and requirements pertaining a particular disaster recovery method you are going to use also apply for the disaster recovery of a MSCS. For details on supported operating systems, refer to the HP OpenView Storage Data Protector Software Release Notes.

All prerequisites for disaster recovery (i.e. consistent and up-to-date backup, updated SRD file, all faulty hardware replaced...) must be met to recover MSCS.

Consistent backup for MSCS should include:

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