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Recovery Points - How To

Configure Recovery Points

Required Capability: Capabilities and Permitted Actions

Before you begin

wedgeTo configure Recovery Points:

  1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click a Replication Set and select Properties.

  2. In the Replication Set Properties (Replication Options) tab, select Allow Recovery Points.

  3. In the Maximum Number of Recovery Points field, specify the maximum number to retain.

    Note

    Ensure that the destination volume specified for each Replication Pair has sufficient space for the maximum number of snapshots that will be created and retained.

  4. On Windows you can configure to automatically mount the snapshots from the latest Recovery Point when they are created. (This is not available for ONTAP Snapshots.) On UNIX, you can configure to automatically mount every snapshot by default, and automatically create a symbolic link to the mount points it creates.

  5. Perform the following steps to mount the snapshot:

    Select the Auto-Mount snapshots after Recovery Point Creation option, then click Enter Mount Points.

    In the Enter Mount Points dialog box, click the Mount Point column for each Destination Path and do one of the following:

    On Windows, do one of the following for each snapshot to be mounted:

    • Specify a drive letter (e.g., G:) to which to mount the snapshot. Ensure that you specify an unused drive letter.

    • Type a mount point name (e.g., G:\mountpoint1) to which the snapshot will be mounted.

    On UNIX, type the path to the symbolic link that points to the directory where the snapshot is mounted.

    Note

    Even though you specify the mount point for a recovery point on a UNC path, this mount point is ignored when a recovery point is created on a UNC path.

  6. For Windows, select a Snap Engine Type.

    For UNIX, CDR software automatically recognizes the File Systems configured on the destination computer and detects the appropriate snap engine. For more information on supported snap engines, see Snapshot Engines - Support.

  7. In the Pre/Post Process tab, specify any Pre/Post Recovery Point commands to be run. Refer to Configure Pre-processes and Post-processes.

  8. If you will be backing up Recovery Points, see Configure CDR for Backups of Recovery Points.

  9. Click OK to save your changes.

Note

It is recommended that you also see Configuring Space Check for ContinuousDataReplicator Agents and Configuring Alerts for Low Disk Space to provide warning that the destination computer, and the cache volume in particular, is running out of disk space, which will ultimately cause all recovery points to be deleted.

You can now Create a Recovery Point.

Create a Recovery Point Using CDR

Before You Begin

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

wedgeTo create a Recovery Point:

  1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click a Replication Set, and select Create Recovery Points.

  2. From the Create Recovery Point dialog box, select the type, and whether to create the Recovery Point immediately or schedule it.

  3. In addition, you can select the option of backing up Recovery Points. If you select this option, click Enter Backup Details to select the type of backup as well as any Advanced Options.

  4. When you are finished, click OK.

  5. If you opted to schedule Recovery Point creation, the Schedule Details dialog box will appear. Specify the details for your schedule; click Options for additional choices. When you are satisfied, click OK.

Create a Recovery Point in a Fan-In Configuration

Before You Begin

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To create a Recovery Point for a Fan-In configuration:

  1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click ContinuousDataReplicator on the destination client, and select Browse Destination Volumes.

  2. In the Browse Destination Volumes dialog box, right-click a destination volume, and select Create Recovery Point.

  3. From the Create Recovery Point dialog box, select whether to create the Recovery Point immediately or schedule it.

  4. In addition, you can select the option of backing up Recovery Points. If you select this option, click Enter Backup Details to select the type of backup as well as any Advanced Options.

  5. When you are finished, click OK.

  6. If you opted to schedule Recovery Point creation, the Schedule Details dialog box will appear. Specify the details for your schedule, click Options for additional choices. When you are satisfied, click OK.

Delete a Recovery Point Using CDR

Before You Begin

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

wedgeTo delete a Recovery Point:

  1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click a Replication Set, and select Browse Recovery Points.

  2. From the Recovery Points dialog box, select a Recovery Point and click Delete.

Delete a Fan-In Recovery Point Using CDR

Before You Begin

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To delete a Fan-In Recovery Point:

  1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click ContinuousDataReplicator on the destination client, and select Browse Destination Volumes.

  2. In the Browse Destination Volumes dialog box, right-click a Recovery Point, and select Delete.

Automatically Mount a Recovery Point Using CDR

Before You Begin

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

wedgeTo configure a Replication Set so that its Recovery Points are automatically mounted:

  1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click a Replication Set for which at least one Replication Pair has already been created, and select Properties.

  2. From the Replication Options tab of the Replication Set Properties screen, select the Auto-Mount snapshots after Recovery Point Creation option.

  3. Click Enter Mountpoints.

  4. In the Enter Mount Points dialog box, click the Mount Point column for each Destination Path and do one of the following:

    • For Windows, do one of the following for each snapshot to be mounted:

      Specify a drive letter (e.g., G:) to which the snapshot will be mounted. Ensure that you specify an unused drive letter.

      Type a mount point name (e.g., G:\mountpoint1) to which the snapshot will be mounted.

    • For UNIX, type the path to the symbolic link that points to the directory where the snapshot is mounted.

  5. Click OK.

Manually Mount or Share the Snapshots of an Existing Recovery Point

Before You Begin

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

wedgeTo mount or share the snapshots of an existing Recovery Point, on Windows:

  1. In the CommCell Browser, perform a Browse operation for one of the following:

    • Replication Set

    • CDR Agent

    • Client

    • Application iDataAgent (Exchange, SQL)

  2. Do one of the following, depending on the object you browsed:

    • From the Recovery Points dialog box, select a Recovery Point and click View Snapshots.

      In the Snapshots dialog box, select a snapshot and click Mount.

    • In the Browse dialog box, right-click the snapshot to be mounted, and select Mount Snapshot.

  3. Do one of the following:

    • specify a drive letter (e.g., G:) to which to mount the Recovery Point. Ensure that you specify an unused drive letter.

    • type a mount point name (e.g., X:\mountpoint1) for the Recovery Point.

      Note

      For Windows 2003, Recovery Point snapshots created with VSS, cannot be mounted on a mount point (e.g. X:\mountpoint1), this needs to be mounted to a drive letter (e.g., G:).

  4. If you want to create a share, do one of the following, depending on which object you browsed:

    • In the Snapshots dialog box, select a mounted snapshot and click Share.

    • In the Browse dialog box, right-click the mounted snapshot to be shared, and select Create Network Share.

    In the Enter Share Name dialog box, type a name for the share and select Make share writeable option. Click OK.

  5. Close the Snapshots dialog box or Browse window.

Automatically Mount Snapshots for Fan-In Recovery Point

Before you Begin

  • Review How to Setup Fan-In Configuration

  • You can configure CDR so that the snapshots that comprise the latest Fan-In Recovery Point will be automatically mounted when it is created. This will affect all Replication Sets that use the computer as a Fan-In destination. Alternately, once Recovery Points have been created, you can select an existing Recovery Point and mount its snapshots.

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To configure CDR to automatically mount snapshots for Fan-In Recovery Points:

  1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click ContinuousDataReplicator on the destination client, and select Properties.

  2. From the Fan-In tab, select the Recovery Points tab, and select the Auto-Mount snapshots after Recovery Point Creation option.

  3. Click Enter Mountpoints.

  4. In the Enter Mount Points dialog box, click the Mount Point column for each Destination Path and specify a drive letter (e.g., G:) to which the snapshot will be mounted.

    Notes

    • Ensure that you specify an unused drive letter.

    • Do not specify mount points for a UNC path. If you specify the mount point for a recovery point on a UNC path, this mount point is ignored when a recovery point is created on a UNC path.

    • When a Recovery Point snapshots created with ONTAP snap engine and Auto-Mount snapshots after Recovery Point Creation option is selected, share of snapshot will be created.

  5. Click OK.

Manually Mount or Share the Snapshots of an Existing Fan-In Recovery Point

Before you Begin

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To mount the snapshots of an existing Fan-In Recovery Point, on Windows:

  1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click ContinuousDataReplicator on the destination client, and select Browse Destination Volumes.

  2. In the Browse Destination Volumes dialog box, right-click a Recovery Point, and select Mount.

  3. Specify a drive letter (e.g., G:) to which to mount the Recovery Point. Ensure that you specify an unused drive letter.

  4. To share a snapshot on ONTAP, do the following, depending on which object you browsed:

    • In the Browse window, right-click the mounted snapshot to be shared, and select Create Network Share.

    • In the Enter Share Name dialog box, type a name for the share.

    • Select Make share writeable option. Click OK.

  5. Close the Browse window.

Unshare the Snapshots of a Recovery Point

Before You Begin

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

wedgeTo unshare the snapshots of a Recovery Point (On Windows only):

  1. In the CommCell Browser, perform a Browse operation for one of the following:

    • Replication Set

    • CDR Agent

    • Client

    • Application iDataAgent (Exchange, SQL)

  2. Do one of the following, depending on which object you browsed:

    • From the Recovery Points dialog box, select a Recovery Point and click View Snapshots.

      In the Snapshots dialog box, select a shared snapshot and click Unshare.

    • In the Browse dialog box, right-click a mounted snapshot, and select Delete Network Share.

  3. Close the Snapshots dialog box or Browse dialog box.

Unmount the Snapshots of a Recovery Point

Before You Begin

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

wedgeTo unmount the snapshots of a Recovery Point:

  1. In the CommCell Browser, perform a Browse operation for one of the following:

    • Replication Set

    • CDR Agent

    • Client

    • Application iDataAgent (Exchange, SQL)

  2. Do one of the following, depending on which object you browsed:

    • From the Recovery Points dialog box, select a Recovery Point and click View Snapshots.

      In the Snapshots dialog box, select a mounted snapshot and click Unmount.

    • In the Browse dialog box, right-click a mounted snapshot, and select Unmount Snapshot.

  3. Close the Snapshots dialog box or Browse dialog box.

Unmount a Fan-In Recovery Point Using CDR

Before You Begin

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To unmount the snapshots of a Fan-In Recovery Point:

  1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click ContinuousDataReplicator on the destination client, and select Browse Destination Volumes.

  2. In the Browse Destination Volumes dialog box, right-click a Recovery Point, and select Unmount.

  3. Close the Browse Destination Volumes dialog box.

Configure CDR for Backups of Recovery Points

Before You Begin

Required Capability: Capabilities and Permitted Actions

wedgeTo configure CDR for backups of Recovery Points:

  1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click a Replication Set, and select Properties. In the Replication Set Properties (Storage Policy) tab, select Back up Recovery Points, and specify a Storage Policy and Backup Set for the destination machine.

  2. Click OK to save your changes.

    Note

    To perform backups of a Recovery Point, see Back up a Recovery.

Configure CDR for Backups of Recovery Points in a Fan-In Configuration

Before You Begin

Required Capability: Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To configure CDR for backups of Recovery Points in a Fan-In configuration:

  1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click ContinuousDataReplicator on the destination client, and select Properties.

  2. From the Fan-In tab, select Back up Recovery Points, and specify a Storage Policy for the destination machine.

  3. Click OK to save your changes.

    Note

    To perform backups of a Recovery Point, see Back up a Recovery Point.

Backup a Recovery Point

Before You Begin

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

wedgeTo configure Recovery Points to be backed up when they are created:

  1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click a Replication Set, and select Create Recovery Points.

  2. From the Create Recovery Point dialog box, make your selections for Recovery Point Type and Job Initiation, then select Back up Recovery Point.

  3. Click Enter Backup Details to select the type of backup from the Enter Backup Details dialog box.

  4. From the Enter Backup Details dialog box, click Advanced to display the Advanced Backup Options dialog box, from which you can select additional options for the backup operation.

  5. When you are finished, click OK to exit each of the dialog boxes.

wedgeTo perform a full backup of an existing Recovery Point on-demand:

  1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click a Replication Set, and select Browse Recovery Points.

  2. From the Recovery Points dialog box, select a Recovery Point and click Backup.

  3. An immediate full backup is performed for each of the snapshots that comprise the selected Recovery Point; in addition, the next backup performed will be converted to a full backup.

Configure a Replication Set for Pre-processes and Post-processes for Recovery Point Creation

Use the following steps to configure a replication set for Pre-processes and Post-processes for Recovery Points creation:

  1. From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | ContinuousDataReplicator | ReplicationSet.

  2. Right-click the Replication Set and select Properties.

  3. In the Replication Set Properties dialog box, select the Pre/Post Process tab.

  4. Click inside the space that corresponds to one of the following phases and type the full path of the process that you want executed during that phase. Alternatively, click Browse to locate the process (applicable only for paths that do not contain any spaces).

    • Pre-Recovery Point Command

    • Post-Recovery Point Command

  5. Select one of the following options from the User Account dialog box:

    • Use Local Accounts - Select this option if the local account has permissions to execute the processes on the destination client.

    • Impersonate User - Select this option and enter the username and password, that has the permissions to execute the processes on the destination client.

  6. Click OK to save your changes and close the Pre/Post tab of the Properties dialog box.

Specify a Snap Engine

Before You Begin

  • In the source computer:

    • For Windows 2003 or higher, VSS is used as the default snap engine.

  • This procedure only applies to the destination computer.

  • In the CommCell Browser, right-click the Replication Set on the source computer and select Properties.

  • In the Replication Options tab, select one of the choices in the Select Snap Engine Type for Recovery Point Creation section.

    For Windows, VSS is the default selection; ONTAP can be used if available on the destination computer where the Recovery Point will be created.

    For UNIX, Snap Engine Type is automatically detected by the File System configured on the destination computer.

  • Click OK to save your changes.

    On UNIX, CDR software automatically recognizes the File Systems configured on the destination computer and detects the appropriate snap engine.

Change Account for Executing Pre-process Commands and Post-process Commands (Recovery Points)

You can configure to use a different account with permissions to execute the Pre-processes and Post-processes on Destination clients for Replication Sets. Use the following steps to changes this account:

  1. From the CommCell Browser, navigate to Client Computers | <Client> | ContinuousDataReplicator | ReplicationSet.

  2. Right-click the Replication Set and select Properties.

  3. In the Replication Set Properties dialog box, select the Pre/Post Process tab.

  4. From the Pre/Post Process tab, click Change and select one of the following options:

    • Use Local Accounts - Select this option if the local account has permissions to execute the processes on the destination client.

    • Impersonate User - Select this option and enter the username and password, that has the permissions to execute the processes on the destination client.

  5. Click OK to save the settings.

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