A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint & Best Practices for Your NetBackup Appliances & Beyond (Onsite/Offsite)
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The document provides a detailed step-by-step blueprint for disaster recovery procedures for NetBackup appliances, focusing on best practices and configurations for improved data recovery. It emphasizes the importance of establishing reliable recovery processes, optimizing duplication, and utilizing monitoring tools to ensure data integrity and availability. Additionally, it includes guidelines for setting up roles, syncing recovery files, and tuning NetBackup for faster recovery times.
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A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint & Best Practices for Your NetBackup Appliances & Beyond (Onsite/Offsite)
- 1. 1 A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint & Best Practices for Your NetBackup Appliances & Beyond (Onsite/Offsite) A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint
- 2. Panel Members: • Dave Little, Distinguished Systems Engineer • Ramin Arvand, Lead Principal Technical Architect • Tim Burlowski, Sr. Product Manager, NBU Appliances • Hai Nguyen, Sr. Product Manager , NBU Appliances • Alex Sakaguchi, Product Marketing Manager 2A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint
- 3. Submit your comments and questions: • Via Twitter using the hashtag: • Via the Google+ Event page: A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint 3 #SYMCHangout http://bit.ly/13oTjvp
- 4. Goals & Objectives A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint 4 1- Help you establish a stronger last line of defense for 52X0 appliances DR procedures. 2- Define, what is possible, what is not possible and where to go for more help when it comes to a 52X0 series appliance disaster recovery procedures. 3- Recovery procedures from OST disk devices are all the same with a minor NBU command option difference.
- 5. Storage Life Cycle Policy (SLP)/Optimized Duplication A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint 5 NBU Master Domain A NBU Media Server Open Storage Device Image Backup Duplication Image OpenStorage device Image OST Optimized Duplication With OpenStorage, NetBackup sees disk as disk and knows about the advanced capabilities NetBackup OpenStorage provides tighter integration, richer features, better solution
- 6. AIR Under Hood Diagram A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint 6 10GB E Network 10GB E Network Production Data Center Disaster Recovery Data Center Colorado DC NetBackup Master DR NetBackup Master OPS Center Netbackup Lan Clients Netbackup Lan Clients A.I.R Image Image Image Image Netbackup 5220 Appliance Media/Storage Server Cloud GW Netbackup 5220 Appliance Media/Storage Server Cloud GW DR Netbackup 5220 Appliance Media/Storage Server Cloud GW Copy 1 Copy 2 Alabama DC OST image replication (OST Optimized Duplication) NetBackup Storage Lifecycle Polices control the replication from Alabama Domain to Colorado Domain and once the image is automatically imported by Policy, the Colorado Domain copy is managed by that domain AIR “Import” is a) Immediate and b) Optimized (fast) operation
- 7. Which one to use? AIR or Opt Dup A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint 7 1- When it comes to protecting NB clients data, configure A.I.R across your sites. 2- When it comes to protecting NB catalog of a Master appliance, configure optimized duplication across your sites. 3- When it comes to protecting 52X0 appliances configured as media servers, no NetBackup catalog recovery is required on the Media server appliances during DR.
- 8. Media Server DR Scenarios A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint 8 Storage Layout & Troubleshooting 5220 controllerRAID PORT1 842 842 PORT2 8G FC PORT1 842 842 PORT2 8G FC PORT1 842 842 PORT2 8G FC PORT1 842 842 PORT2 8G FC 8G FC GRN10G ACT/LINKA GRN10G ACT/LINKB 10G NIC GRN10G ACT/LINKA GRN10G ACT/LINKB 5230 NetBackup 5220 NetBackup 5230 Same storage capacity options 8 CPU cores “Westmere” 12 CPU cores “Sandy Bridge” 48/96 GB RAM 64/128 GB RAM 4 PCIe 2.0 slots 5 PCIe 3.0 slots Broader I/O configuration Data RAID 6 Hot Swappable Data RAID 6 Hot Swappable OS RAID 1 OS RAID 1 Hot Swappable LI-ON RAID Write Cache protection Super Cap/NVRAM RAID Write Cache protection
- 9. Submit your comments and questions: • Via Twitter using the hashtag: • Via the Google+ Event page: A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint 9 #SYMCHangout http://bit.ly/13oTjvp
- 10. Master appliance Recovery at Production Site A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint 10 Customer Environment Note1: Appliance setup so that the Hot-Catalog backups are written to an Appliance Storage Server device and then the image is duplicated to DR remote location via an SLP configuration.
- 11. How To Read NB Catalog DR File A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint 11 DR_MEDIA_REC 2 0 0 nb5220dc 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 35 0 1353982384 @aaaak 1;PureDisk;NB5020DR;NB5020DRDP;PureDiskVolume;0 * The names of the storage server and disk pool that will be created in next steps need to match the production environment. If there are any questions of what these names were the DR file can be used to identify those names. From this DR file the following items are pointed out: Storage server type = PureDisk Storage Server name = NB5020DR Disk pool name = NB5020DRDP
- 12. Procedures for Master Appliance Server Recovery At Local Production Site (Applicable for Any OpenStorage Target) A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint 12 1) Configure the role of Master Appliance 2) Configure the role of Recovery Media Server 3) Configure Recovery Storage Server 4) Configure a Disk Pool on Recovery Storage Server 5) Configure a DSTU 6) Run nbcatsync to synchronize DR file 7) Tune NetBackup for faster recovery (Buffer Files) 8) Run bprecover Glossary Recovery Media Server = 5220 Appliance that holds Catalog backup Recovery Storage Server = 5220 Appliance that holds Catalog backup FQDN = Fully Qualified Domain Name nbcatsync = Reconciles the disk media ID information held in the meta-data of the NetBackup image database with the disk media ID information found in the NetBackup EMM database. bprecover = Recovers selected NetBackup related catalogs
- 13. Procedures for Master Appliance Server Recovery at Local Production Site A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint 13 1. Configure the role of Master Appliance using CLISH Login to the appliance as admin and run the following command Main_Menu>Appliance>Master 2. Configure the role of Recovery Media Server using CLISH Login to the master server appliance and run the following command: Main_Menu>Appliance>Add <media server appliance name> The above command will add the media server appliance as SERVER in bp.conf file & performs below EMM command on the master server nbemmcmd -addhost -machinename XXX -machinetype media -masterserver XXX - netbackupversion 7.5.0.4 -operatingsystem linux http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH163230 is available for more information.
- 14. A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint 14 3. Configure Recovery Storage Server (using the same name as in production) Procedures for Master Appliance Server Recovery At Local Production Site NB CLI ‘s - NB appliances nbdevconfig -creatests --storage_server nb5220 -stype PureDisk -media_server nb5220 tpconfig -add -stype PureDisk -storage_server abc-01 -sts_user_id root -password root For 3rd party OST, make sure OST plug-in has been installed and configured nbdevconfig -creatests -st 9 -storage_server SSS -stype DataDomain -media_server XXX tpconfig -add -storage_server SSS -stype DataDomain -sts_user_id boostuser -password cccc
- 15. A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint 15 4. Create the Disk Pool on Recovery Storage Server (using the disk pool wizard and the same name as in production) Procedures for Master Appliance Server Recovery At Local Production Site 5. Configure DSTU
- 16. 16 6. Run nbcatsync to synchronize the disaster recovery file to the new disk pool Procedures for Master Appliance Server Recovery At Local Production Site nbcatsync -sync_dr_file /tmp/DR/NBU_Catalog_1358360205_FULL -copy 1 –dryrun nbcatsync -sync_dr_file /tmp/DR/NBU_Catalog_1358360205_FULL -copy 1 A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint
- 17. 17 6. Run nbcatsync to synchronize the disaster recovery file to the new disk pool Procedures for Master Appliance Server Recovery At Local Production Site nbcatsync -sync_dr_file /tmp/DR/NBU_Catalog_1358360205_FULL -copy 1 –dryrun nbcatsync -sync_dr_file /tmp/DR/NBU_Catalog_1358360205_FULL -copy 1 A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint
- 18. A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint 18 Procedures for Master Appliance Server Recovery At Local Production Site 7. Tune NetBackup for faster recovery These touch files will be in /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config echo 262144 > SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS echo 256 > NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS echo 1048576 > SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS_DISK echo 512 > NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS_DISK For more information, please study “Symantec NetBackup™ Backup Planning and Performance Tuning Guide”
- 19. A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint 19 8. Run bprecover Procedures for Master Appliance Server Recovery At Local Production Site NB CLI: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bprecover –wizard
- 20. A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint 20 Standby NB DR Master other physical clients Copy 2 DR Copy NB Primary Master Copy 1 Procedures for Master appliance Recovery at Remote site
- 21. Procedures for Master appliance Server Recovery At Remote DR site (Applicable for Any OpenStorage Target) A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint 21 1) Configure the role of Master Appliance 2) Configure the role of Recovery Media Server 3) Configure Recovery Storage Server 4) Configure a Disk Pool on Recovery Storage Server 5) Configure a DSTU 6) Run nbcatsync to synchronize DR file * 7) Tune NetBackup for faster recovery (Buffer Files) 8) Run bprecover
- 22. Procedures for Master Appliance Server Recovery At Remote DR site (Applicable for Any OpenStorage Target) A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint 22 6. Run nbcatsync to synchronize the disaster recovery file to the new disk pool nbcatsync -sync_dr_file /tmp/DR/NBU_Catalog_1358360205_FULL -copy 2 –dryrun nbcatsync -sync_dr_file /tmp/DR/NBU_Catalog_1358360205_FULL -copy 2
- 23. SLP/AIR Reporting: OpsCenter SLP Inflow/Outflow Trend Report 23 Must monitor to ensure that the Green line isn’t growing faster than the red line. In this case, duplications are falling behind
- 24. Submit your comments and questions: • Via Twitter using the hashtag: • Via the Google+ Event page: A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint 24 #SYMCHangout http://bit.ly/13oTjvp
- 25. NetBackup Appliances DR Best Practices 25 Document All Appliance Recovery Procedures (Site Specific Step–By–Step) Re-visit Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) to ensure recovery per real business requirements OpsCenter is your friend. Use it to monitor progress of SLPs. Configure IPMI Enable Call Home Store NB Catalog DR File Off-Site Create Checkpoint Before Applying Maintenance Patches A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint
- 26. 26 In the past disaster recovery could be overwhelming, but with the current capabilities of NetBackup and our appliances, this has been greatly simplified. Call to Action – Document and test your Disaster Recovery Plan! A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint
- 27. Upcoming Virtual Vision Sessions Date Sessions [Wed. @ 9:30 am Pacific Time] 7/24/2013 Managing Dark Data and File Governance 7/31/2013 The New Era of Business Continuity 8/7/2013 BONUS SESSION: Backing up vCloud Director | What's the difference between the vCD API and VADP? 8/14/2013 What Can the Backup Exec 3600 do to Improve your Data Protection Strategy? 8/21/2013 Why Host-Based SSDs are Critical for SLAs in Mission-Critical Datacenters 8/28/2013 Less Work, More Flow: Revolutionizing Governance and eDiscovery Workflow 9/4/2013 On Prem vs. Cloud Archiving http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/virtual-vision-join-conversation A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery Blueprint 27
- 28. Thank you! Copyright © 2012 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved. Symantec and the Symantec Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. This document is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended as advertising. All warranties relating to the information in this document, either express or implied, are disclaimed to the maximum extent allowed by law. The information in this document is subject to change without notice. Google+ Hangout:- A Step-By-Step Disaster Recovery 28 Dave Little NetBackup Strategist [email protected] Ramin Arvand Principal Technical Architect [email protected]