VBrick Systems V4.4.3 manual Bringing a Failed Machine Back Online

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3.If you want viewers to use the same host name for the Portal Server after turning a warm backup into a live server, a network administrator will have to change the IP address or DNS entry to match the new address.

Bringing a Failed Machine Back Online

Bring a Failed Machine Back Online as a Warm Backup

TTo bring a failed machine back online as a warm backup server:

1.Configure the fixed machine as a warm backup. Repeat all of the configuration steps described earlier (see Configuring ETV Backup on page 161). Be sure to replace the profile IP addresses with the IP address (or server machine name) of the new live Portal Server. Make sure you don't put both the live server and the warm backup server online at the same time with the same IP address.

2.After fixing or replacing the failed server, go to Add or Remove Programs and Enable this machine as a warm backup—not as a live Portal Server. You can only have one Live Portal server configured at a time.

(If you want viewers to use the same host name for the Portal Server after turning a fixed machine into a warm backup, a network administrator will have to change the IP address or DNS entry to match the new address.)

3.After performing these steps, the new primary server will acquire the backed up directories and files from the old primary server as soon as you test the configuration.

Bring a Failed Machine Back Online as a Primary Server

TTo bring a failed machine back online as a primary server:

1.Follow Steps 1–3 above to first bring a failed machine back online as a warm backup. You must perform these steps first. If you do not, you risk losing all existing backup data.

2.Go to Add or Remove Programs and Disable this machine as a warm backup.

3.Go to Add or Remove Programs on the other server and Enable that machine as a warm back.

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