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

vxsnap prepare

Creates snapshot mirrors of the volumes in the specified site, vault store group, vault store, or component. The snapshot mirrors remain attached to and synchronized with the original volumes.

Note:

If a volume is used for more than one component, it will be snapshot prepared only once when all the components are specified in vxsnap prepare command. However, when all the components are separately prepared for snapshot mirrors, then the volume gets prepared many times (once for every component).

Syntax
vxsnap prepare [-b] writer=<WriterName>
[site=<SiteName>[/VSG=<VSGName>[/VS=<VSName>]]]
[[/]component=<ComponentName>]
Attributes

The following attributes apply:

[-b]

Run the process as a background process.

writer=<WriterName>

Unique ID of the VSS writer, for example, EnterpriseVault. Required if you specify the component.

site=<SiteName>

Name of the Enterprise Vault Site.

VSG=<VSGName>

Name of the Enterprise Vault Store Group

VS=<VSName>

Name of the Enterprise Vault Store

component=<ComponentName>

Name of the Enterprise Vault component. For example, Vault Store database, Fingerprint database, or Volume Component, such as index, partitions, etc.

Note:

Any text string that contains spaces must be enclosed in quotation marks.

Example
vxsnap prepare writer=EnterpriseVault
site=site1/vsg=vsg1/vs=vs1 site=site2/component="Index
Location (V:)" component="Directory DB"

The above command prepares all the volumes for a snapshot for the Vaultstore "vs1" of site1/vsg1, "Index Location (V:)" of site2 and "Directory DB".