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 create

Creates snapshot of the specified volume(s) or Enterprise Vault component. Allows volumes to be snapshotted simultaneously.

Syntax
vxsnap [-x <Filename>] create writer=<WriterName>
[site=<SiteName>[/VSG=<VSGName>[/VS=<VSName>]]]
[[/]component=<ComponentName>][backuptype=<backuptype>]
[-O]
Attributes

The following attributes apply:

-x <Filename>

Indicates the name to be assigned to the XML metadata file that will be created with the command. The file name must include the ".xml" extension. To specify a location other than the default location for the file, you must enter the full path for the file (e.g. J:\XML\Image1.xml).

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.

backuptype=FULL|COPY

Specifies the type of backup, either a Full or Copy.

If no option is specified then Copy is the default.

-o

Allows an existing XML file of the same name to be overwritten. If -o is not specified, then the vxsnap create command does not overwrite an existing XML file of the same name and the operation fails.

Note:

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

Examples
vxsnap -x snapdata.xml create writer=EnterpriseVault
site=site1/vsg=vsg1/vs=vs1 site=site2/component="Index
Location (V:)" component="Directory DB"

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

To make a snapshot of the complete site1, run the following command:

vxsnap -x snapdata.xml create writer=EnterpriseVault site=site1

The above command makes a complete snapshot of site 1 including the directory database.