Re: Entire Cluster Restore

From: Adam Price (adam+usenet_at_pappnase.co.uk)
Date: 05/14/03 

Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 05:36:29 +0100

F. J. S. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if anyone out there restored a 5.1X cluster from
> just a cd and backup tapes?
>
> Here is my configuration:
> One 2 node cluster with a mirrored CFS disk.

Yes we've just done this, the procedure was based heavily on the one in
chapter 9 of the legato disaster recovery manual, see here for details..

http://web1.legato.com/infodev/publications/NetWorker/disrec/7.0/disrec_7.0.pdf

HTH
Adam
(PS The trick is to rebuild a one node cluster and then do a selective restore).

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