Backing up cluster

[peeky1323]

Hi,

ARCserve 2000 SP4
Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP3

I am trying to backup (over the LAN) a Windows 2000 2 node cluster (Active/Passive). The problem is I can see both nodes but not the "Cluster" (virtual server).

Background: We backup user data during the week (backing up 500GB per night), and full backups at the weekend for Disaster recovery. Because of this during the week we only select certain drives (selecting the whole machine at the weekend). As I can only see the nodes I can only select the cluster share on 1 node. This means that if the cluster fails over I can not backup the cluster share as it is only visible from 1 node.

1 workaround is to select both nodes completely, and just filter out everything but the drives I want. Is there a way to see the Virtual Server? This cluster is a SQL server but I don't want to SQL agents. I only want to backup the SQL database backups, not the live databases or logs.

Thanks and sorry for the 10,000 word essay

 

[Cyklops]

Are you using the NT/2000 Client agent for this or are you selecting both servers through the network ??
If you don't use the client agents now, install them, the client agent is cluster aware and will show you the virtual server.
Check on the release notes and manuals for specific cluster support information.

regards

 

[Flypuck]

I came across the following when trying to solve my own problem. The following URL may help from datbasebaba.

http://support.ca.com/techbases/as2000/as2k-1500.html

The URL relates more to admin on a AD.

The following URL was supplied to me from mohamdr and also kind of relates to you as well.

http://support.ca.com/Download/patches/asitnt/LO86966.html

Its a patch for the NT client agent but don't install if you don't need to.

Don't worry about writing a essays, I write books for my problems.

hope it helps.

 

[peeky1323]

Sorry forgot to mention that I am using the Agents (SP4). I can see the shard drives from the active node. I tried to add an agent for the virtual server but I get "Can not connect to Agent".

The login account I am using is a member of Domain Admins (and even Domain administrator doesn't work).

 

[Cyklops]

I think I confused the base product with the agent. What you should do is :
- Select both nodes completely without deselecting any sources.
- ARCserve will backup the cluster volumes from the active side and will skip them from the passive side (check this in the job- and activity logs).
- when the cluster fails over the agent on the passive - now active - node will take over the cluster volumes.

regards

 

[mohamdr]

From my experiance the backup of cluster enviroment it has to be only througth the cluster virtual Name to handel the failover .so in this case it won't use the client agent and won't utilize the benefits of client agent functionlity.