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

About the Enterprise Vault Snapshot and Snapback wizards and the vxsnap utility

If you need to create an individual snapshot set, you can do so either from the command line, using the vxsnap command line utility, or from the VEA console using the Enterprise Vault Snapshot and Snapback wizards.

These methods do not include the capability of scheduling periodic refreshing of the snapshot set. Instead you would need to manually reattach the mirror, allowing it to resynchronize, and then create a snapshot set again from the resynchronized mirror. If you want to keep the snapshot set up to date, you should set up a snapshot schedule using the Enterprise Vault Snapshot Scheduler Wizard.

See Scheduling a new snapshot set.

The vxsnap command can be invoked from any system which is a part of the EV configuration and where the Enterprise Vault Admin service is running. The PowerShell script execution policy should be set to unrestricted and the Veritas Scheduler Service should be configured with users having Administrative privileges.

See Preparing for Enterprise Vault snapshots.

The following table lists the Enterprise Vault wizards and corresponding vxsnap command keyword options.

Table: Actions of wizards and vxsnap command

Action

Wizard

vxsnap command line utility

Prepares all dependent components of Enterprise Vault (EV) for a snapshot set

Enterprise Vault Prepare wizard

See Preparing an EV snapshot mirror.

vxsnap prepare

See vxsnap prepare.

Creates a snapshot set consisting of snapshots of all the volumes in the specified Enterprise Vault component.

Enterprise Vault Snapshot wizard

See Creating a one-time EV snapshot set.

vxsnap create

See vxsnap create.

Reattaches and resynchronizes a snapshot set to the production database volumes.

Enterprise Vault Snapback wizard

See Refreshing an EV snapshot.

vxsnap reattach

See vxsnap reattach.