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Chapter 7: Microsoft Cluster Disaster Recovery (Windows 2000 and .NET)

This chapter explains how to recover Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows

.NET MSCS host systems. Familiarity with MSCS concepts and operations is assumed. For complete information about MSCS, refer to the Microsoft documentation.

This chapter includes the following sections:

•“Recovering a Failed Quorum Disk” on page 128

•“Recovering One Cluster Node” on page 129

•“Recovering Multiple Cluster Nodes” on page 132

Prerequisites

To recover Windows 2000 or Windows .NET MSCS host systems, ensure that each of the following prerequisites is satisfied:

•The NetWorker software is installed on each cluster node.

•Backups that include the SYSTEM save sets (SYSTEM FILES, SYSTEM DB, and SYSTEM STATE) have been performed on a regular basis by a NetWorker server in the same domain as the cluster nodes. This will help ensure that data is available for recovery to the desired point in time. The Microsoft cluster database is a component of the Windows system state, and as such is automatically included when the SYSTEM STATE save set is specified for backup or recovery.

•During a recovery, the domain controller for the domain to which the cluster nodes belong must be available to authenticate the node joining the cluster.

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