Restoring single server DRS backup to cluster?

Hi all,
We are migrating to a new cluster from a single MCS server. I have a DRS backup from the single server, and we have already built up the new Pub and Sub for testing pursposes. We have finished testing and want to migrate. The new hardware has been set up with the same hostname and IP as the existing hardware, so I can just do a DRS restore straight on to the new publisher.
My question is, do I need to restore to the publisher, then rebuild and re-add the subscriber? Or if I simply disconnect the sub, restore to the pub and reconnect the sub, will the database replication take care of it?
All the security passwords and hostnames and IPs will be the same between the old and new hardware.
Thanks

I suggest that you reinstall the publisher OS, restore the DRS backup, and then reinstall and join the subscriber to the cluster. I say this because there are OS and database-level changes that take place when you add a node to the cluster. The DRS restore will cleanly restore the publisher database and cause the database replication to tear down. It's not documented whether this would clear out the OS-level configuration as well though. If this is production it's not worth the risk of 'maybe'. To be frank, the whole cluster replication setup is a bit touchy.
Please remember to rate helpful responses and identify helpful or correct answers.

Similar Messages

Migrate Iprint on NW6 Single Server to OES LNX Cluster

Hey
is there a migration path from running iprint on netware 6 server
to oes linux cluster server.(About 100 printers).
regards steve

Stefan,
It appears that in the past few days you have not received a response to your
posting. That concerns us, and has triggered this automated reply.
Has your problem been resolved? If not, you might try one of the following options:
- Do a search of our knowledgebase at http://support.novell.com/search/kb_index.jsp
- Check all of the other support tools and options available at
http://support.novell.com.
- You could also try posting your message again. Make sure it is posted in the
correct newsgroup. (http://support.novell.com/forums)
Be sure to read the forum FAQ about what to expect in the way of responses:
http://support.novell.com/forums/faq_general.html
If this is a reply to a duplicate posting, please ignore and accept our apologies
and rest assured we will issue a stern reprimand to our posting bot.
Good luck!
Your Novell Product Support Forums Team
http://support.novell.com/forums/

Is it possible to restore Windows server 2012 backup to another physical hardware or virtual machine?

Hi
I have windows server 2012 which is my domain controller. It has 2 hyper visor virtual machine that they are 2012 too. I have an additional domain controller in another location too.
I want to know, how can I restore a bare metal or system state backup to another machine, to have a domain controller same as old one whit all the properties, rules and features.
Thanks

Hi Mehdi,
Yes, it is possible to restore Windows backup to a different machine with different hardware. This article, although written for Windows Server 2008 still applies in 2012:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/249694
Best regards,
Please remember to mark the replies as helpful if they help, or as answers if they answer your question. Please also unmark the answers if they provide no help.
Zach Roberts
Independent Microsoft Community Support Advisor
Disclaimer: I don't work for Microsoft. Any advice given is my own and does not represent Microsoft.
Follow me on Twitter:
@WindowsZach

Using iplanet console, is it possible to restore directory server A backup to directory sever B, if it's on the same box? Or on a different box?

I've tried and the data is there but not the object class or attributes. Also, what manuals do you recommend for the admin/mgmt of these servers? Thank you for your help ahead of time.

It seems that restoring a backup from server A to Server B is working if : the path names to the database are exactly the same (which implies a different machine), the indexes are exactly the same and the disk and filesystem are the same on both machines.
But this is not supported... ie we didn't fully tested it, and we don't really know when it works and when it doesn't.
Regards,
Ludovic

Restore single instance rman backup to rac database

Hello all. I have a 10gR2 single instance database that I have been taking backups using the oracle's suggested backup strategy, that is, once full database backup and incremental backups here and there. That's is all fine as I have (many times) being requested to rollback the database resulting in all operations being sucessfull.
However, since this is somehow a pre-certification database, I am now being tasked to restore this database to what is going to be our production database, which is a 10gR2 rac database. I have already set up the RAC database sucessfull.
Now, my question is: How can I take one of the backups that I have on the single-instance database and restore onto my RAC database ?
Some information about the infraestructure:
Both operating systems are HP-UX. Single instance is 11.23, RAC database is 11.31.
Both database are using ASM as datafiles storage and flash recovery area storage.
Any help will be appreciated!
Thanks!

In general terms, there are several ways you can convert a single instance into a rac intance, and it involves much more activities than just adding redo threads.
Use of DBCA
Enterprise Manager Grid Control
rconfig utility
Considering your case, if you don't currently have Grid Control, the first option is rconfig.
1. Migrate your database from the current environment to the target environment by a regular cloning procedure, this will create a single instance into your rac environment. Your regular rdbms rac installation allows you to manage both, single instance and rac instances. Use this procedure to clone your database to the target RAC environment using recovery manager --> http://madrid9999.googlepages.com/rmancloneadatabase
2. Once you have started your database in the RAC environment proceed with the rconfig tool, this requires some files to perform the conversion, the ConvertToRAC.xml file which is located at $ORACLE_HOME/assistants/rconfig/sampleXMLs
3. Once you copied/edited the ConvertToRAC.xml file, you have to run the rconfig. Save the ConvertToRAC.xml under a different file name.
rconfig editedConvertToRAC.xml
4. For further reference on the rconfig command, you may refer to this page Oracle® Real Application Clusters Installation Guide
11g Release 1 (11.1) for Linux and UNIX
~ Madrid

Exchange Server 2013 backup and restoration question

Good afternoon
I am wondering if I can pick people's brains here if that's not too much trouble.
I have recently implemented an Exchange 2013 environment with 3 servers (two multi-role CAS & MBX physical machines, and one further virtual CAS server). Everything is working correctly and mail-flow is fine. My question relates to backup and restoration
procedures. I am running a single Database Availability group with the two multi-role servers members of the this group and I have one Mailbox Database on the DAG, passive on one member and active on the other. Failover has been tested and this is functioning
as expected.
The backup environment I have implemented is as follows. I have utilized a separate Microsoft DPM 2012 server that runs a nightly Bare Metal backup on both multi-role servers with a retention range of 14 days and I have protected the DAG using DPM with a
nightly full-express backup and 4 hourly syncs on one of the multi-role servers. Furthermore the Mailbox Database is protected, again nightly with a copy-backup.
I am confident I know what to do should the mailbox database become corrupted or lost or need to be restored for one reason or another (it would just be a case of restoring the backed up mailbox database using DPM to a pre-created recovery database), what
I am not quite so sure on is what I would do should I lose one or both of the multi-role CAS and MBX servers (the third CAS I am not so worried about as it is not used for incoming mail flow from the internet and we really only use it for ECP as we did not
want to expose this to the internet). I wonder what process should follow to restore my Exchange servers (I know how to perform the Bare Metal recoveries using WSB) and what configuration would be required after restoring the Bare Metal backups.
I know this is a reasonably long question but if anyone has any advice for me I would appreciate it greatly in the unlikely event something goes horribly wrong with my Exchange environment.
Thanks in advance

Hi,
Yes, Most of the configuration settings are stored in AD. Mail data and personal related data are store in Mailbox DB. We just need to take consideration of these two points.
Thanks,
Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help. If you have feedback for TechNet Subscriber Support, contact
[email protected]
Simon Wu
TechNet Community Support

Unable to do Bare Metal Restore on Windows Server 2008R2 Backup from USB Seagate Backup Plus Harddrive

I have done a windows full server backup on to an external Seagate HDD on a Dell PowerEdge T110 II Server running Windows Server 2008 R2
I want to clone this and do a Bare Metal Restore on an identical server at home which has Windows Server 2008 R2 on it.
I boot from the Windows DVD provided, select repair however windows Server 2008 R2 will not find the image of the Seagate drive. The Seagate drive can be seen on the server otherwise. I guess there are options to load the driver, but I don't see them.
Please help. Kind of stuck here
Thanks

I am using a windows server 2008R2 disk to boot up. Both the servers have windows server 2008R2 on them. I have two licenses for each of the servers. I want to use the server at home as a backup server in case the server in office goes down. I used
windows server backup to backup the server at work to a portable USB hard drive. I bought the hard drive home and want to clone the server at work. I heard bare metal restore is the best way to do this. So I booted the server at home with the windows server
2008 r2 disk that I have and clicked repair. I had attached my seagate portable drive to the usb port so that the server could find the image of the server at work, however the server cant find the hard drive or the server image. Is it a problem with my usb
hard drive? Do I need a specific type of usb hard drive to do server image backups?
If I let my server at home boot regularly and it comes up, it can see the image on the hard drive so I dont know how to do the bare metal restore. I know it can be done becuase my IT guy did it when he set up both the servers. I just want to periodically
clone them so make sure the server at home is updated with the settings of the server at work.
Thanks for any help here

Backed up files partially disappear after restore (Windows Server 2008 R2 - Windows Server Backup)

Dear all,
I am experiencing a problem with "Windows Server 2008 R2", using Windows Server Backup.
Here's my setup:
Server: RAID 5 Disk setup
Backup:
By using Windows Server Backup (within Windows Server 2008 R2), C: and D: were fully backed up, with "System State" and "Baremetal Recovery" options selected. Backup went okay without any errors.
Restore:
By using Windows Recovery Environment (booted from Windows Server DVD), C: and D: were fully restored to the original partitions with "System Recovery" option found within Windows RE (without re-formatting partitions during restore). Restore
went OK without any errors. Rebooted, and system has been running fine.
Problem:
After the restore, the system itself seems running OK; no BSOD, no crash, no visible errors.
However, our client insisted some files (around 6 to 7) which are related to the propriety software has "disappeared" right after System Recovery.
Question:
Since Windows Server Backup is using "Volume Shadow Copy" technology which enables "live backup" of the running system, is it possible that some files will disappear (=restore error) after
System Recovery?
I cannot really find any errors or warnings related to Windows Server Backup in the event log, through. No Windows-backup errors. No VSS errors, too.
Do anybody have experienced this kind of problem in the past? Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your reply, Ms. Mandy.
To make things clear, let me explain to you briefly:
1. The "missing data" was backed up with "full system backup".
2. After a system restore from the above backup image, as you mentioned, partitions has been overwritten with the partions' backup data in the Backup Data Set taken by Windows Server Backup. No error with backup. No error after restore, and reboot - system
has been running fine.
3. Although there was a report that the affected files(about 7 java exectables) were missing after the above restore operation, other aspect of system was running fine at the time of the report.
4. I have checked the original backup data set - and voila, there ARE files which seems to gone after restore.
5. When I used Windows Server Backup "on" Windows Server 2008 R2 normal environment (= NOT Recovery environment from DVD) and selectd ONLY these affected files to restore, these files could be RESTORED successfully, without any errors. SO... data
was property backed up.
> The recovery will overwrite the partitions so files created after the backup point will be missing.
I understand, and this is not the case this time, because the affected files are already present in the backup data set (= I have mounted the backup data as VHD, and I could clearly see them present in the mounted VHD file)
Plus, these files are completely restoreable via "selective file restore" in Windows Server Backup.
Things I want to know/confirm:
> The recovery will overwrite the partitions
If I understand this correctly, in case that the files in question are already present in the backup data set, these files SHOULD be restored after full system restore, right? (If these files could not be restored, Windows Server Backup SHOULD show some errors.)
What do you think, Ms. Mandy? :)
Jo

Error while trying to restore ipad from icloud backup "Connection Error - server error apple id couldnt be created"

after updating to ios 6.1.2 ipad2 ended up in restore mode, i have restored it and now i need this morning's the backup that's only on icloud
but after i login (succesfully) and acept terms & condition popups an error "Connection Error - server error: apple id couldnt be created" or "impossible to login there has been a problem while connecting with server" when it should start setting up the ipad.
any clues on whats going on? i really need this backup. what can i do? there is any other way to restore using the icloud backup from somewhere else?
thanks

https://discussions.apple.com/message/19556552#19556552
Level 1 (0 points)
brandonfromhenderson
This solved my questionRe: Apple ID couldn't be created because of a server error when i try to restore from a backup 13-sep-2012 9:49 (in response to brandonfromhenderson)
Found the solution! Go To Appleid.apple.com and set your birthday and other questons..

Slower in Weblogic cluster server than a single server

I have an application in my development environment which is a single server of WebLogic 8.1 SP4. It is working fine in terms of performance. But once I deployed the same application into our test environment which is a cluster setup with WebLogic 8.1 SP4. The performance in the test env was significantly dropped. I asked for your help. Any advice and suggestions would be highly appreciated.
Thanks.

I have an application in my development environment which is a single server of WebLogic 8.1 SP4. It is working fine in terms of performance. But once I deployed the same application into our test environment which is a cluster setup with WebLogic 8.1 SP4. The performance in the test env was significantly dropped. I asked for your help. Any advice and suggestions would be highly appreciated.
Thanks.

Restore Exchange 2007 database backup on Exchange 2010 server

Hi,
We have a requirement to restore mailbox from 2 years old when backup taken from Exchange 2007 server. Now we are on Exchange 2010 server where backup happens. So out of 2 years 1 year backup happen from Exchange 2007 & later happen from Exchange 2010
server using Netbackup.
We have 2 Exchange 2010 mailbox server & 1 Exchange 2007 mailbox server. Mailbox to be restore currently exists on Exchange 2010 mailbox server & functional.
can someone guide me with exact steps or best practice for restoring mailbox. confused by reading over multiple posts.

Hi ,
You cannot export data to a .pst file from a mailbox that is in a recovery storage group (RSG).
Mailboxes that are in a database that has been mounted in an RSG cannot be connected to Active Directory directory service accounts. These mailboxes have to be merged into existing mailboxes, or copied to a folder in an existing mailbox.
More information:
How to Export Mailbox Data:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb266964(v=exchg.80).aspx
Recovery Storage Group and PST's:<//span>
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sa/exchangesvravailabilityandisasterrecoverylegacy/thread/f0a062fa-1ec7-4d0c-aa58-bd7356df140d
Understanding Recovery Storage Groups:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124039(v=exchg.80).aspx
Wendy Liu
TechNet Community Support

I have a lion server set up to host storage for time machine backups. Is there a limit to how many different computers can back up to the single server to back up. I am only backing up the users folders . The backup drive is an external Drobo with 6 TB.

I have a lion server set up to host storage for time machine backups. Is there a limit to how many different computers can back up to the single server to back up. I am only backing up the users folders . The backup drive is an external Drobo with 6 TB. Right now it seems to back up my users all day long. I set their time machine interval to every 5 hours but it still runs all day long and is very slow. Server is on a new Mac Server mini.

AFAIK, there is no user limit.. it is simply a question of the network load. AFP is a fairly clean protocol.. but TM is not.. it does a lot of testing of the backup.. infact your setting of 5hour gap could well make it worse.
I would sort out the clients that are doing 100GB backups to a different backup location.. no matter how fast your network.. 100GB takes time to backup.. and over wireless forever.. it will never end.
I guess some of these clients are on wireless?? I would separate the TM of wireless to those that are wired. No more than 4 or 5 wireless clients to a target device. Otherwise you are saturating your network with backup data. And use 5ghz.. so close by.. it is much faster than 2.4ghz and you will get much better transfer rates.

How to restore single mailbox (Inbox & Sent Items) using symatec backup 2010R3

Dear all,
I am using symatec bakcup exec 2010. iam trying to resotre mailbox for one of my user. I have full backup and i can able to see the user mailbox. My question is "If i start restore the emails (inbox & Sent itmes) will it be create any issue at my
live environment (Exchange server) . Backup exec is installed in exchange server2010 only. When i started restore its restoring full database (around 35GB). i am doing this first time in live environment. Kindly help me.
Thank you.
Karan

Hi Karan,
Based on my knowledge, Backup Exec offers 2 ways to restore Exchange data.
1. Using Mailbox database restore.
2. Restore individual mailbox or mail items from the backup set.
Besides, I'm not familiar with the third-party software Backup Exec. I recommend you ask more assistance about Symantec Backup Exec from Backup Exec vendor.
What's more, we can use DPM to restore individual mailbox.
Here is an article for your reference.
How to protect Exchange with DPM 2010 whitepaper
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8068
Hope it helps.
If there are any problems with Exchange, welcome to our Exchange forum.
Best regards,
Amy
Amy Wang
TechNet Community Support

Restart application on single server of a cluster

Hi all,
I have a cluster of three nodes/servers and I have deployed 2 applications on this cluster.
I want to know if is it possible to stop and to start an application in a single server of the cluster, not on all servers of the cluster.
Example:
Cluster --> servers: 1, 2, 3
Deployed applications --> A, B
I want to stop B only at server 2, is it possible? If yes, how?
Thank you in advance,
Indrit Selimi

Thank you very much for responding.
Yes, I agree that theoretically all the nodes on the cluster will be aligned and there will be (and must be) no difference between nodes. But in real life applications, it can happen for example that one of the servers fails (ex. out of memory) and you have to reboot it; now, if for some reason application B fails to start (ex. problem with data source etc); why I should reboot the server halting also application A that have no problem? For this reason I was asking if there was a way to restart one application on single server of a cluster.
Thank you very much again.
Indrit

Restoration of MaxDB online backup on other server for creating Standby DB

Hi,
I had taken MaxDB online database backup through Data Protector 6.11. Now i want to restore this backup on other server. So that i can configure this as a standby database. I selected config and data for restoration but it was giving me an error as below,
[Critical] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@ttcsolma "BE1" Time: 01/11/11 01:19:05
      Error: SAPDB responded with: -24988,ERR_SQL: SQL error
-9407,System error: unexpected error
3,Database state: OFFLINE
Internal errorcode, Error code 9050 "disk_not_accessible"
So I created the database but with default values and then tried restoration but getting error as below,
Error: Unable to read the configuration value `All' for SAPDB instance `SID'.
If anybody is having any document or steps for confguring the Standby MaxDB database through Data Protector backup/restore method.
Thanks,
Narendra

Hi Siva,
Thanks for the replyu2026Yes I had copied the dbm.ebf, dbm.mdf dbm.knl files from the source server to target server. And also backup is visible in target server. And also I created Data /Log volumes size as equal to source server.
I tried restoring through DBM GUI with "recovery with initialization" option but I am getting error message as below and also I am getting same error message when I restore from Data Protector GUI. But I donu2019t have any problem restoring the backup on same server the problem occurs only when restoring it on target server.
Now for testing I have taken backup on file system through DBM GUI of source system and started restoring on target system. No problem while restoring from file system backup on target server. I am suspecting there is some problem with PIPE as I am using third party backup tool i.e. DP 6.11. I want to resolve the problem with third party backup tool as we will take all MaxDB database backup on tapes through DP 6.11.
Through DBM GUI error message:
Error: SAPDB responded with: -24925,ERR_PREPARE: preparation of backup operation failed
The list of external backup ID's contains less than 16 ID's.
Through Data Protector GUI error message:
[Normal] From: RSM@bkupsvr "" Time: 1/18/11 8:49:16 AM
      Restore session 2011/01/18-12 started.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@tstmaxdb "SID" Time: 01/18/11 08:50:58
      Executing the dbmcli command: `user_logon'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@tstmaxdb "SID" Time: 01/18/11 08:51:00
      Executing the dbmcli command: `dbm_configset -raw BSI_ENV /var/opt/omni/tmp/SID.bsi_env'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@tstmaxdb "SID" Time: 01/18/11 08:51:03
      Executing the dbmcli command: `db_admin'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@tstmaxdb "SID" Time: 01/18/11 08:51:03
      Executing the dbmcli command: `util_execute clear log'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@tstmaxdb "SID" Time: 01/18/11 08:51:22
      Executing the dbmcli command: `dbm_configset -raw set_variable_10 OB2BACKUPAPPNAME=SID'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@tstmaxdb "SID" Time: 01/18/11 08:51:22
      Executing the dbmcli command: `dbm_configset -raw set_variable_11 OB2BACKUPHOSTNAME=ttcmaxdr'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@tstmaxdb "SID" Time: 01/18/11 08:51:23
      Executing the dbmcli command: `util_connect'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@tstmaxdb "SID" Time: 01/18/11 08:51:24
      Restoring backup 2011/01/17 0061.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@tstmaxdb "SID" Time: 01/18/11 08:51:24
      Executing the dbmcli command: `medium_put BACKDP-Data[8]/1 /var/opt/omni/tmp/SID.BACKDP-Data[8].1 PIPE DATA 0 8 NO NO \"\" BACK'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@tstmaxdb "SID" Time: 01/18/11 08:51:24
      Executing the dbmcli command: `medium_put BACKDP-Data[8]/2 /var/opt/omni/tmp/SID.BACKDP-Data[8].2 PIPE DATA 0 8 NO NO \"\" BACK'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@tstmaxdb "SID" Time: 01/18/11 08:51:25
      Executing the dbmcli command: `medium_put BACKDP-Data[8]/3 /var/opt/omni/tmp/SID.BACKDP-Data[8].3 PIPE DATA 0 8 NO NO \"\" BACK'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@tstmaxdb "SID" Time: 01/18/11 08:51:25
      Executing the dbmcli command: `medium_put BACKDP-Data[8]/4 /var/opt/omni/tmp/SID.BACKDP-Data[8].4 PIPE DATA 0 8 NO NO \"\" BACK'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@tstmaxdb "SID" Time: 01/18/11 08:51:26
      Executing the dbmcli command: `medium_put BACKDP-Data[8]/5 /var/opt/omni/tmp/SID.BACKDP-Data[8].5 PIPE DATA 0 8 NO NO \"\" BACK'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@tstmaxdb "SID" Time: 01/18/11 08:51:27
      Executing the dbmcli command: `medium_put BACKDP-Data[8]/6 /var/opt/omni/tmp/SID.BACKDP-Data[8].6 PIPE DATA 0 8 NO NO \"\" BACK'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@tstmaxdb "SID" Time: 01/18/11 08:51:27
      Executing the dbmcli command: `medium_put BACKDP-Data[8]/7 /var/opt/omni/tmp/SID.BACKDP-Data[8].7 PIPE DATA 0 8 NO NO \"\" BACK'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@tstmaxdb "SID" Time: 01/18/11 08:51:28
      Executing the dbmcli command: `medium_put BACKDP-Data[8]/8 /var/opt/omni/tmp/SID.BACKDP-Data[8].8 PIPE DATA 0 8 NO NO \"\" BACK'.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@tstmaxdb "SID" Time: 01/18/11 08:51:28
      Executing the dbmcli command: `recover_start BACKDP-Data[8] DATA ExternalBackupID "SID 11011761:1 Stream,SID 11011761:2 Stream,SID 11011761:3 Stream,SID 11011761:4 Stream,SID 11011761:5 Stream,SID 11011761:6 Stream,SID 11011761:7 Stream,SID 11011761:8 Stream"'.
[Critical] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@tstmaxdb "SID" Time: 01/18/11 08:51:30
      Error: SAPDB responded with: -24925,ERR_PREPARE: preparation of backup operation failed
The list of external backup ID's contains less than 16 ID's.
[Normal] From: OB2BAR_SAPDBBAR@tstmaxdb "SID" Time: 01/18/11 08:51:30
      Executing the dbmcli command: `exit'.
[Normal] From: RSM@bkupsvr "" Time: 1/18/11 8:49:59 AM
      OB2BAR application on "tstmaxdb" disconnected.
Thanks,
Narendra

Restoring single server DRS backup to cluster?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for