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Vai2000 - 27 Jan 2006 15:53 GMT

What's the best way to backup cluster and restore it incase of outage?

TIA
Env: MSCS 2000
OS: Win2000 Adv Srv
SQL2k

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Rodney R. Fournier [MVP] - 27 Jan 2006 22:07 GMT

System State backups of the nodes, $ backup of the shared disks, SQL file
backup to a shared disk. Test, test, test. To know if you have everything
for a restore, perform one on your test cluster.

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering Website
http://msmvps.com/clustering - Blog
http://www.clusterhelp.com - Cluster Training

> What's the best way to backup cluster and restore it incase of outage?
>
> TIA
> Env: MSCS 2000
> OS: Win2000 Adv Srv
> SQL2k

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Vai2000 - 28 Jan 2006 01:16 GMT

Shouldn't we use the Cluster SDK API for backup?
BackupClusterDatabase
RestoreClusterDatabase

TIA

> System State backups of the nodes, $ backup of the shared disks, SQL file
> backup to a shared disk. Test, test, test. To know if you have everything
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>> OS: Win2000 Adv Srv
>> SQL2k

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Rodney R. Fournier [MVP] - 30 Jan 2006 18:43 GMT

Cluster Aware backup software, no clue on API's - I am not a programmer!

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering Website
http://msmvps.com/clustering - Blog
http://www.clusterhelp.com - Cluster Training

> Shouldn't we use the Cluster SDK API for backup?
> BackupClusterDatabase
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>>> OS: Win2000 Adv Srv
>>> SQL2k

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