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FWIW we exportfs the /etc folder read only, and nightly copy across to a Win2K server (via WS-FTP PRO Sync utility) so that the folder gets onto the Win2K server backup cycle including month ends etc. That way we have an online copy, and on month end tapes in the NT space so it is restorable without having to get the Filer up first.
Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Öberg Mats [mailto:mats.oberg@tietoenator.com] Sent: 08 November 2002 07:27 To: 'Deepak Soneji'; devnull@adc.idt.com; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: SV: Root/Boot Disk(Volume?) Safety
Hi, All you need to do is copy the etc-directory from the root volume to your other volume,
Then if your root-volume fails, you floppy-boot and select your other volume as root volume, reboot and all is well...
Now if you have other stuff on your root volume besides etc, you will still need to restore it from backups.
---- Mats
-----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: Deepak Soneji [mailto:sonejideepak@hotmail.com] Skickat: den 8 november 2002 01:03 Till: devnull@adc.idt.com; toasters@mathworks.com Ämne: Re: Root/Boot Disk(Volume?) Safety
I was wondering if we can snapmirror vol0 of filer1 to filer2 and viceversa! or maybe use ndmpcopy across the filers. Thanks /Deepak
----- Original Message ----- From: devnull@adc.idt.com To: toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:16 PM Subject: Root/Boot Disk(Volume?) Safety
Dear Toasters,
I have 2 filers, a F810 and a F740. We also have some Sun servers that do NIS, sendmail, web server etc.
To protect from root/boot disk failures on my Sun, i either use rsync to copy the root disk to another machine with the same hardware architecture
or
mirror the disk to a "backup" disk on the same machine.
I have 2 volumes on my F810 vol0(which has 2 disks) and vol1(11 disks) on a DS-14 shelf.
I am trying to protect myself from the situation where i lose both my vol0 disks, which will mean that my filer will no longer know anything about itself and i cant really "connect" from my backup server to the netapp to recover everything.
If i lose 2 disks on vol1, i will lose all data, but i can slap 2 new disks on the filer and still recover all data from my backups.
Any recommendations, thoughts on the same ?
I use Legato for backup and do my backups over NFS, by mounting the volumes to my backup server.
/dev/null
devnull@adc.idt.com
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