Veritas Access Appliance 8.0 Solutions Guide for Enterprise Vault
- Introduction
- System Requirements
- Installing and configuring Enterprise Vault with Access Appliance
- Access Appliance features for Enterprise Vault archival storage
- Access Appliance archival policy configuration for Enterprise Vault
- Configuring CIFS for the Active Directory domain mode
- Access Appliance GUI policies for archival storage
- Configuring the replication job
- Configuring the archival policy using GUI
- Configuration of CIFS shares for archival using Veritas Access CLISH
- Storage provisioning using policies
- Configuring Access Appliance storage with Enterprise Vault store partition
- Episodic replication job failover and failback
- Continuous replication failover and failback
- Configuring replication failover and exporting CIFS share from target cluster
- Troubleshooting
- Index
Overview of the unplanned failover process
In some cases (for example, unexpected equipment failure), you may need to run an unplanned failover for episodic replication jobs. The unplanned failover process differs from the planned failover process.
Consider two Access Appliance clusters, cluster A and cluster B. Here, cluster A is the original source cluster that replicates data to cluster B which is the original destination cluster. If the source cluster A fails unexpectedly, you have to perform an unplanned failover operation or a disaster recovery operation. After disaster recovery is performed, cluster B is marked as the new source cluster.
This section shows an overview of the steps you take to perform an unplanned failover.
For unplanned failovers, all the commands are run from the destination cluster (cluster B).
Make sure that you are logged into the destination cluster.
Use the replication episodic job failover force=yes/no job_name command to failover the job.