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

Preparing an EV snapshot mirror

Preparing Enterprise Vault (EV) for snapshot involves preparing all the dependent components of EV. The Prepare operation can be performed at the EV farm, sites, Vault StoreGroups, Vault Stores, or any component level. When you right-click an EV object and select the Enterprise Vault Prepare operation from the context menu, related EV sites, components, etc. within (subordinate to) the EV object are prepared for snapshot mirrors.

Note:

You can have only one snapshot volume on a disk for a particular production volume.

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 or in Enterprise Vault Prepare Wizard. However, when all the components are separately prepared for snapshot mirrors, then the volume gets prepared many times (once for every component).

The snapshot mirrors remain attached to the original volumes and continue to be updated until you use the Enterprise Vault Snapshot Wizard, the vxsnap create command, or the Enterprise Vault Snapshot Scheduler Wizard to create the snapshot set.

Please note the following:

  • When an EV site is prepared, the Directory database is also prepared implicitly by the system along with the EV site components.

  • When an Vault Store database of a Vault Store is prepared, the Open Partition of that Vault Store is also prepared implicitly by the system.

  • When an Open Partition of a Vault Store is prepared, the Vault Store database of that Vault Store is also prepared implicitly by the system.

To prepare the snapshot mirrors, you can use either of the following methods:

  • Prepare volumes using the VEA GUI as described in the following procedure.

  • Prepare volumes using the CLI

    You can use the vxsnap prepare command to prepare volumes for snapshot mirrors.

    See vxsnap prepare.

To prepare volumes for EV snapshot mirror using the VEA

  1. On the VEA console, navigate to the Storage Agent in the tree-view and expand the Enterprise Vault nodes, under Applications.
  2. Right-click the desired Enterprise Vault component and select Enterprise Vault Prepare from the context menu.
  3. The Enterprise Vault Prepare Wizard is launched.

    Read the information on the Welcome page. Click Next.

  4. From the Select Component page, select the EV components, sites, Vault Store Groups, Vault Stores, or partitions for which you want to prepare snapshot mirrors.

    Additionally, you can also use the keyboard shortcuts to select EV components. Use Ctrl+ A to select the entire EV farm along with sites and components. Use Ctrl+Click to select EV components of your choice. Use Ctrl+Shift+Arrow Up, Down keys to select components located at the upper and lower hierarchies in the EV farm.

    Click Next.

  5. Review the summary page for description of the selected sites and components that are prepared. Click Finish to complete the Prepare operation for the selected components.