104Disaster recovery
Recovering from a deduplication storage server disk failure
Recovering from a deduplication storage server disk failure
If recovery mechanisms do not protect the disk on which the NetBackup software resides, the deduplication storage server configuration is lost if the disk fails. This topic describes how to recover from a system disk or program disk failure where the disk was not backed up.
Note: This procedure describes recovery of the disk on which the NetBackup media server software resides not the disk on which the deduplicated data resides. The disk may or may not be the system boot disk.
Symantec recommends that you use NetBackup to protect the deduplication storage server system or program disks. You then can use NetBackup to restore that media server if the disk on which NetBackup resides fails and you have to replace it.
Table | Process to recover from media server disk failure | |
Replace the disk. |
| If the disk is a system boot disk, also install the operating |
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| system. |
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| See the hardware vendor and operating system |
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| documentation. |
Mount the storage. |
| Ensure that the storage and database are mounted at the |
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| same locations. |
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| See the storage vendor's documentation. |
Install and license the | See the NetBackup Installation Guide for UNIX and Linux. | |
NetBackup media server | See the NetBackup Installation Guide for Windows. | |
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| See “About the deduplication license key” on page 42. |
Delete the configuration file | If you use load balancing servers in your environment, delete | |
on media servers |
| the storage server configuration files on those servers. |
See “Deleting a load balancing server configuration file” on page 70.
