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 restore

Uses the snapshot volumes in a snapshot set created by the vxsnap create command to recover a corrupted or missing Enterprise Vault component.

Exclusive access to the Enterprise Vault component is required for this operation.

Before using this command verify that the source volumes and the snapshot volumes are not in use.

Syntax
vxsnap -x <Filename> [-f] [-b] [-r] [-a] restore
writer=<WriterName>
[site=<SiteName>[/VSG=<VSGName>[/VS=<VSName>]]]
[[/]component=<ComponentName>]
restoreType={RECOVERY|NO_RECOVERY}
Attributes

The following attributes apply:

-x Filename

The metadata file created by the vxsnap create command. Each snapshot set must have a unique name for the metadata file.

-b

Resynchronizes the volume in the background. A new snapshot cannot be made until the resynchronization is complete.

-f

Forces the operation. Make sure the volume is not in use before using this option.

-r

Recover even if original volume is not present. If this option is selected and the original volume is not present, the snapshot volume of the missing volume is changed from a read-only volume to a read-write volume.

-a

Dismount the databases before the restore operation and then mount the database after the restore operation.

writer=<WriterName>

Unique ID of the VSS writer, for example, EnterpriseVault or the GUID for the writer.

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.

restoreType={RECOVERY|NO_RECOVERY}

Specifies the type of database recovery, either recovery or no recovery:

With RECOVERY database and transaction log files are restored from the snapshot set. No transaction backup logs are applied. The database is left in an operational state.

To back up logs so that you can restore the database using log replay, at least one Full backup must have been created earlier.

NO_RECOVERY restores from the specified snapshot set to the time of the snapshot. No logs are applied and the database is left in a loading state so that you can manually replay backup logs to a specific point in time.

Example
vxsnap -x snapdata.xml restore RestoreType=RECOVERY
writer=EnterpriseVault site=site1/vsg=vsg1/vs=vs1
component="Directory DB"

The above command restores the vault store "vs1" and "Directory DB" from backup set using the metadata from snapdata.xml.