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Conference decwet::winnt-clusters

Title:WinNT-Clusters
Notice:Info directories moved to DECWET::SHARE1$:[NT_CLSTR]
Moderator:DECWET::CAPPELLOF
Created:Thu Oct 19 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:863
Total number of notes:3478

839.0. "DECNSR 4.3 & Clusters 1.1 scheduled backups" by NNTPD::"[email protected]" (Adrian Moore) Thu May 29 1997 21:57

Hi,

A client has two AlphaServer 4100s with Windows NT 4.0 and Digital Clusters
for Windows NT 1.1.

DECNSR 4.3 server is on one of the Cluster member (serverA) and hosts a DLT
drive.

NSR client is on the other Cluster member (serverB).

Both serverA and serverB host cluster disks.

ServerA's local and cluster disks can be backed up ok using a scheduled backup
job.

The client wants to back up serverB using the NSR Server Admin scheduling
features, but if a job is scheduled in this way only the LOCAL disks on
serverB are backed up. He can only backup the cluster disks hosted by serverB
if he runs the NSR client on serverB - a manual process.

Is there a difference in the way the client and server identify "local"
disks? Should he expect it to work to a "remote" cluster node? Do the cluster
disks look like "network drives" to the DECNSR client, perhaps, but not to the
server?

Any feedback would be appreciated.

[cross posting to networker].

Thanks & regards,
Adrian Moore
Sydney CSC
Out of my depth and floating away...
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839.1DECWET::KOWALSKIOfficial Beer Test DummieFri May 30 1997 09:4012
    You should ask this question in the decwet::networker notes conference,
    since it seems like a NetWorker problem.
    
    You can use a command line program, "savefs -vpp" I think, to see what
    the NetWorker client will backup on a scheduled save.
    
    Yes, the networker client only backs up what it thinks are local disks
    on a server-initiated backup (as long as the saveset is "All").   In
    the case of a disk on a share bus that is currently accessible to a
    system, networker SHOULD see the disk as accessible and local.
    
    Mark