Fast disaster recovery with veritas backup

[jmiturbe]

Hello,

I´m looking for a fast restore process i case of disaster usin veritas backup. I´ve read that the method is to reinstall the operating environment, reinstall the backup software and finally reinstall the data.

Is there any way to avoid the OE and backup software reinstallation? Which is the best and fastest way to recover the whole system?

Thanks in advance,

jmiturbe

 

[ITsmyfault]

There are 2 options I am aware of:
1. Bootable backup media (typically a bootable tape) you need a compatible drive for this option.
2. Purchasing the Disaster Recovery Option for BUE. (for v9. not sure if it was available prior) This creates a bootable media (ISO image to burn a CD from typically) that allows you to boot the machine from bare metal and then mount the backup tape and restore. I'm in the middle of getting this option up and running here so unfortunately I can't tell you if it *works* or not.. But in theory it looks pretty good.

 

[jmiturbe]

Hello,

My operating environment is a Solaris-Sparc machine with a small tape loader, so the bootable backup media option is not valid for me.

The other one can be a good solution if it finally works, but I was thinking in a much easier thing. I supose that the veritas software uses standard file copying methods at a lower level, so my idea was to boot from solaris cdrom and restore from complete backup using standard unix commands. Do you know if it is possible? And if possible, how it´s done?

Thanks,

jmiturbe

 

[ITsmyfault]

Not sure how you could do that.. what I do for our solaris boxes is just use UFSDump/VXDump for the reasons you state.. it made no sense to me to use a 3rd party product when the key thing here is no downtime/fast recovery. I can boot the OS from CDrom and restore the whole thing pretty quickly.
We use a simple chron script and it's the most reliable backup job I have here! It never hiccups. It emails me a status every morning so I know it went ok.