Legato Disaster Recovery 1

[TAW]

We are trying to locate Legato Disaster Recovery documentation. We have looked on the Web page and it discusses a DR Wizard but we can not find any documention for the DR Wizzard. Does anyone know where we can find this?

Thx
TAW

 

[Chapter11]

DR is possible with Networker, but you need to keep track of several pieces of information externally.

What more would you like to know? (I've done several DR tests with Legato. It's not a cakewalk)

 

[cia]

Hi,

You are talking about a DR wizard, do you mean that you are trying to do a Disaster Recovery with NRM? Or are you trying to do a DR within "normal" Legato NetWorker?
Regards
Cia

 

[TexExpat]

Legato has an add-on product called NetWorker Recovery Manager that I have tried in a lab setting. It worked rather well, and I am now trying to purchase it for my server. It creates a file from which you can create a bootable CD for a specific NetWorker client. It has been a while since I tested this, but to initiate disaster recovery, you boot the repaired machine from this CD. As I recall, it creates the partition(s) and formats the
drive(s). It installs enough on the repaired machine that you can access the NetWorker server and recover the client in full.

This product is not cheap, however. As I recall, you need a license for the server as well as a license for each client you want to protect. I really object to NetWorker being so difficult and time-consuming for DR that you need something like this. Like much of NetWorker, you have to buy expensive add-ons just to get functionality you would get out of the box with other products.

The other "gotcha" is that, like so much of NetWorker, it does NOT work with NetWare clients.

Hope this helps.

 

[rgzimmer]

I'm not sure why it worked, but I did a recovery of two systems to similar, but not identical hardware this way:

Installed NT4 (no service packs)

Installed NetWorker

Connected to the backup server and did a complete system restore, including system files

rebooted

Both systems came back up with zero errors and fully patched with sp6a. This shouldn't have worked, but it did.

 

[x2shy]

You are right, it shouldn't have worked! Done this a number of times and it doesn't always work.
Generally, I follow this process.
Install OS with same name and IP address etc.
Install SP.
Intall Legato.
Recover.
reboot.
fixed.

I guess there is probably about 10 extra minutes in my way but if they both get to the same goal then who cares.
Just when/if you right doco, The above method is the recommended way by Legato and most sys admins (who use legato)