Failback and restoration, Recovering to the original source – HP Storage Mirroring V5 Software User Manual

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Failover, Failback, and Restoration

If DNS failover was selected, the clients will have to wait for the IP cache to expire, or type in “

ipconfig

/flushdns

” in a command window. This time can be adjusted by lowering the TTL (Time to Live) setting within

your DNS server’s configuration. For more information, refer to your DNS server documentation.

Failback and restoration

If your source experiences a failure, such as a power, network, or disk failure, your target machine will stand in

for the source while you resolve the source machine issues. During the source machine downtime, data is

updated on the target machine. When your source machine is ready to come back online, the data is no

longer current and must be updated with the new data on the target machine.
Before you begin to restore to the original source, resolve the issue(s) that caused the failure.
If the source server has to be rebuilt, follow the instructions in ”

Rebuilding the Source

” on page 109.

Recovering to the original source

1.

After repairing/rebuilding the source server offline, bring the server up but leave the network connection

disabled by unplugging the cable or disabling the network interface adapter.

2.

Stop all of the services on the source so that you can overwrite the data with the newer data on the target.

Because the source server cannot communicate with a domain controller because its network connection is

still inactive, this will take longer than normal. The following table lists the services that must be stopped, in

the order in which they must be stopped. Stop the services appropriate to your application.

3.

On the target, open the Failover Control Center (

Start

,

Programs

,

Storage Mirroring

,

Failover Control Center

).

4.

Double-click the target machine that is currently standing in for the failed source to login.

5.

Highlight the failed source and click

Failback

. The failback script created earlier will automatically run.

During failback, Windows Event Viewer and the Storage Mirroring log record the failback events. When

failback is complete, the services will be stopped on the target and the Failback Complete dialog box will

appear.

Exchange 2007

Exchange 2000/2003

SQL

Microsoft Exchange Active Directory

Topology Service

MSExchangeSA

MSSqlServer

Microsoft Exchange Anti-spam Update

MSExchangeMGMT

SQLServerAgent

Microsoft Exchange EdgeSync

POP3SVC

MSSearch (SQL 2000)/MSFteSQL

(SQL 2005)

Microsoft Exchange File Distribution

IMAP4SVC

MSSQLServerADHelper

Microsoft Exchange IMAP4

ResVC

MSDTC

Microsoft Exchange Information Store

MSExchangeES

MSSQLServerOLAPService

Microsoft Exchange Mail Submission

W3SVC

MSDTSServer

Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Assistants

SMTPSVC

SQLWriter

Microsoft Exchange POP3

SQLBrowser (SQL 2005)

Microsoft Exchange Replication Service
Microsoft Exchange Search Indexer
Microsoft Exchange Service Host
Microsoft Exchange System Attendant
Microsoft Exchange Transport
Microsoft Exchange Transport Log Search
Microsoft Search (Exchange)
World Wide Web Publishing Service

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