Storage Foundation 8.0.2 Quick Recovery Solutions Guide for Enterprise Vault - Windows

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (8.0.2)
Platform: Windows
  1. Introducing Quick Recovery for Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      About Quick Recovery snapshot solutions
    2.  
      About snapshot-assisted backups
    3.  
      Advantages of Quick Recovery snapshots
    4.  
      Quick Recovery process
    5.  
      Enterprise Vault components supported by SFW
    6. Methods of implementing Quick Recovery snapshots
      1.  
        About the Enterprise Vault Snapshot Scheduler Wizard
      2.  
        About the Enterprise Vault Snapshot and Snapback wizards and the vxsnap utility
    7. About the components used in Quick Recovery
      1.  
        FlashSnap and FastResync
      2. Integration with Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service
        1.  
          VSS framework
        2.  
          VSS process
  2. Preparing to implement Quick Recovery for Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      Tasks for preparing to implement Quick Recovery for Enterprise Vault
    2. Reviewing the prerequisites
      1.  
        Storage requirements and best practices
      2.  
        Configuration requirements and best practices
    3. Configuring Enterprise Vault storage with Storage Foundation for Windows
      1.  
        Creating dynamic disk groups
      2.  
        Creating dynamic volumes
      3.  
        Pointing the databases and log paths to the SFW volumes
    4. Preparing for Enterprise Vault snapshots
      1.  
        Invoking the Enterprise Vault Management Shell
      2.  
        Configuring the Veritas Scheduler Service
      3.  
        Starting services required for Enterprise Vault Quick Recovery
  3. Scheduling or creating a snapshot set for Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      About scheduling or creating a snapshot set
    2.  
      Tasks to schedule a new snapshot set
    3.  
      Tasks to create a one-time snapshot set
    4.  
      Configuration requirements for snapshots
    5.  
      Preparing an EV snapshot mirror
    6.  
      Scheduling a new snapshot set
    7.  
      Creating a one-time EV snapshot set
    8.  
      Refreshing an EV snapshot
  4. Maintaining or troubleshooting snapshots
    1.  
      Viewing the status of scheduled snapshots
    2.  
      Troubleshooting scheduled snapshots
    3.  
      Deleting or modifying schedules
    4.  
      Synchronizing schedules after adding a cluster node
  5. Recovering Enterprise Vault components
    1.  
      About recovering an Enterprise Vault Server component
    2.  
      Tasks for recovering an Enterprise Vault Server component
    3.  
      Prerequisites for recovering an Enterprise Vault Server component
    4.  
      Types of recovery
    5.  
      Recovering using snapshots without log replay
    6.  
      Restoring snapshots and manually applying logs
    7.  
      Post-recovery steps
  6. Vxsnap utility command line reference for Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      About the Vxsnap utility
    2. Vxsnap keywords
      1.  
        vxsnap prepare
      2.  
        vxsnap create
      3.  
        vxsnap reattach
      4.  
        vxsnap restore

Recovering using snapshots without log replay

The following procedure uses the Recovery option. It restores the component database from the snapshot set volumes to the time of the snapshot set. The component database and transaction log volumes are restored but no additional transaction logs are applied.

Note:

The Recovery option is applicable only for EV database components and not for EV Index and Partitions.

To recover EV components without log replay using the VEA

  1. Close the SQL GUI, Explorer windows, applications, consoles (except the VEA), or any third-party system management tools that may be accessing the EV component volumes.

    It is recommended to bring the database offline.

  2. On the VEA, navigate to the Storage Agent node on the left-hand pane and click to expand Applications. Right-click Enterprise Vault and select Enterprise Vault Restore from the context menu.
  3. Review the information on the Welcome page and click Next.
  4. Select the snapshot set XML metadata file to be used for this operation and click Next.

    The XML metadata file contains all required information needed to restore the snapshot set. Click the appropriate header to sort the list of available files by File Name or Creation Time.

  5. On the Select Restore Type panel, select Recovery.

    Complete the information on this page as follows:

    Recovery with missing original volumes

    Enable the checkbox if one or more original volumes are missing.

    Forcefully close any open handles

    Enable the checkbox if some EV component volumes have open handles. This will forcefully close any open handles of the volumes to be restored.

    Click Next.

  6. On the Select Enterprise Vault components for Restore operation page, select the component or components that you want to restore using the Recovery option.

    The original volumes of selected components are restored from the snapshot volumes. Click Next.

  7. Verify the snapshot restore specifications on the summary page and click Finish.

    The database is restored to the time the snapshot set was created or last refreshed. If you took it offline earlier, bring it back online.

To recover EV components without log replay using the vxsnap restore command

  1. Close the SQL Enterprise Manager GUI and all Explorer windows, applications, consoles, or third-party system management tools that may be accessing the volumes.

    It is also recommended to bring the component database offline.

  2. Type the command as in the following example:
    vxsnap -x billing_DB.xml restore RestoreType=RECOVERY
Writer=EnterpriseVault site=site1/vsg=vsg1/vs=vs1
component="Directory DB"

    where billing_DB.xml is the name of the metadata file generated by the vxsnap create command. The volumes in the snapshot set are restored and the component database is left in an operational state. The component database is restored to the time the snapshot set was created or last refreshed. If you took it offline earlier, bring it back online.