Precautions regarding backup servers, Precautions when mounting, 230 precautions regarding backup servers – HP Serveur lame HP ProLiant BL465c Gen8 User Manual

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Precautions for executing commands in a cluster environment

In a cluster environment, before executing a Application Agent command, you must set the environment
variable

DRM_HOSTNAME

as shown below.

PROMPT> set DRM_HOSTNAME=

virtual-server-name

If you run a backup and restore on Windows Server 2003 in a cluster configuration that uses Veritas
Cluster Server, first use the Windows Computer Management window to make sure that the startup
type of the Windows Management Instrumentation service is not set to Disabled.

If the startup type is disabled, backup commands with

cold

specified in the

-mode

option and restore

commands with the

-resync

option specified will terminate in an error, with a message indicating

that the attempt to switch cluster resources offline failed.

Precautions regarding backup servers

Precautions when mounting

The

drmmount

command stores information about the mounted secondary volume in the following

file:
Application-Agent-installation-directory

\DRM\tmp\mntpt.dat

Do not delete this file while the secondary volume is being mounted by the

drmmount

command.

When you execute the

drmmount

command with a backup ID specified, the copy group corres-

ponding to the backup ID is locked. Such copy groups can be unlocked by executing the

drmu-

mount

command with the same backup ID. As such, if you use the

drmmount

command to mount

the secondary volume, make sure to use the

drmumount

command to unmount the volume. If, for

some reason, the volume cannot be unmounted by using the

drmumount

command, use OS

commands to unmount the volume, and then use the

drmcgctl

command to unlock the copy

group corresponding to the backup ID specified using the

drmumount

command.

If NetBackup is used with tape backup management software, the following points should be taken
into consideration with respect to the

drmmount

command when the

-mount_pt

option is spe-

cified:
• If the

drmmediabackup

command and the

drmmediarestore

command are used with an

arbitrary directory specified in the

drmmount

command's

-mount_pt

option and the secondary

volume is allocated to a mount point, Application Agent requires that the Policy registered with
NetBackup has the cross mount point checkbox set to ON.

• If the

drmmediabackup

command and the

drmmediarestore

command are used with an

arbitrary directory specified in the

drmmount

command's

-mount_pt

option, the

-raw

option

cannot be specified in the

drmmediabackup

command.

If the

-raw

option is used in the

drmmediabackup

command, either do not specify the

-mount_pt

option in the immediately preceding

drmmount

command, or else specify the

drive letter in the

-mount_pt

option.

• If an arbitrary directory is specified in the

drmmount

command's

-mount_pt

option and the

backup data obtained using the

drmmediabackup

command is to be restored, the

drmmount

command executed before the

drmmediarestore

command must specify an arbitrary directory

in the

-mount_pt

option.

Application Agent operations

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