Veritas Access Appliance 8.2 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
- Episodic replication job failover and failback
- Continuous replication failover and failback
- Troubleshooting
Overview of the planned failback process
After a job failover has been accomplished and the source cluster is ready to take back control of the episodic replication task, you can use the job failback feature to release control from the original destination cluster (cluster B) and return it to the original source cluster (cluster A).
From the original destination cluster (cluster B):
Stop all applications that access the replicated files. This step is recommended, but not required.
Use the replication episodic job sync job_name command to run the job and make sure files on the source cluster and destination cluster are synchronized.
Use the Replication> episodic job disable job_name command to disable the job.
From the original source cluster (cluster A):
Use the replication episodic job failback force=yes/no job_name current_cluster_link command to move control of the job from the destination cluster back to the original source cluster.
Use the replication episodic job enable job_name command to enable the job or run a sync on the source cluster.
Use the replication episodic job sync job_name command to ensure that the episodic replication job is in a well-defined state and incremental episodic replication can be resumed.
Once the planned failback process is completed, cluster A becomes the source cluster again and cluster B becomes the destination cluster again.
Note:
While doing a planned replication episodic job failback from source to target, ensure that no NFS shares are configured with the source file system.