ETERNUS SF AdvancedCopy Manager Operator's Guide
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Contents
Before using this online manual
Preface
Chapter 1 Overview of AdvancedCopy Manager
1.1 What is AdvancedCopy Manager?
1.1.1 High-speed backup (24-hour basis)
1.1.2 High-speed replication
1.1.3 Non-stopped operating backup [database]
1.2 Product Configuration of AdvancedCopy Manager
1.2.1 Function system
1.2.2 System configuration
1.2.3 Combinations of products
1.3 Function Overview of AdvancedCopy Manager
1.3.1 What is the backup function
1.3.2 What is the replication function
1.3.3 Authentication feature function
1.3.4 Web client screen
1.4 Operating Environment of AdvancedCopy Manager
1.4.1 Hardware requirements
1.4.2 Software requirements
1.4.2.1 Agent of AdvancedCopy Manager
1.5 Managing a Device on AdvancedCopy Manager
1.5.1 Normal devices
1.5.2 Volumes under the control of Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
1.5.2.1 Backup/replication in units of volume groups
1.5.2.2 Physical disks that constitute a volume group
1.5.3 Volumes under control of VxVM (VERITAS Volume Manager)
1.5.3.1 Physical disks that constitute a disk group
Chapter 2 Starting and Stopping Daemons
2.1 Daemons that Configure AdvancedCopy Manager
2.2 Starting a Daemons
2.3 Stopping a Daemons
Chapter 3 Security Operation Using Authentication Feature
Chapter 4 Backup Operations
4.1 Overview
4.1.1 Snapshot backup processing
4.1.1.1 Snapshot backup processing of Volume Group
4.1.2 Synchronized high-speed backup processing
4.1.2.1 Synchronized high-speed backup processing of Volume Group
4.1.3 Restoration processing
4.1.3.1 Restoration processing of Volume Group
4.2 Operation Design
4.2.1 Deciding a server on which the backup operation should be performed
4.2.2 Deciding a backup target
4.2.3 Deciding a backup policy
4.2.4 Preparing a backup volume
4.2.5 Preparing the automatic backup operation
4.3 Flow of Operation
4.4 Preparations
4.4.1 Activating daemons
4.4.2 Setting an access permission
4.4.3 Starting the initial window
4.4.4 Registering a storage server
4.4.5 Fetching device information on a storage server
4.4.6 Displaying the backup management window
4.4.7 Setting the environment for a backup operation server
4.4.8 Setting the operation type for a device
4.4.9 Setting options
4.4.10 Setting backup policies
4.4.11 Customizing a script of Preprocessing and Postprocessing
4.4.12 Preparing a device map file
4.4.12.1 Describing a device map file
4.5 Operation
4.5.1 Performing the snapshot fast backup
4.5.2 Performing the synchronized high-speed backup
4.5.3 Performing restoration
4.5.3.1 Restoring an entire volume
4.5.3.2 Restoring an individual file
4.5.4 Managing a backup history
4.5.4.1 Displaying a backup history
4.5.4.2 Deleting a backup history
4.6 Changing the setting information
4.6.1 Adding a device
4.6.2 Deleting a device
4.6.2.1 Deleting a transaction volume
4.6.2.2 Deleting a backup volume
4.6.3 Adding a storage server
4.6.4 Deleting a Storage server
4.7 Stopping the Operation
4.8 LVM Volume Operation
4.8.1 Backup operation in volume group units
4.8.1.1 Operation design
4.8.1.2 Preparations
4.8.1.2.1 Setting the transaction volume and backup volume
4.8.1.2.2 Customizing the preprocessing and postprocessing scripts
4.8.1.3 Backup in units of volume groups
4.8.1.4 Restoration in units of volume groups
4.8.2 Backup operation in units of physical disks
4.8.2.1 Operation design
4.8.2.2 Preparations
4.8.2.2.1 Setting the transaction volume and backup volume
4.8.2.2.2 Preparing a device map file
4.8.2.3 Backup in units of physical disks
4.8.2.4 Restoration in units of physical disks
4.9 VxVM Volume Operation
4.9.1 Operation design
4.9.2 Preparations
4.9.2.1 Confirming the disk group configuration information file
4.9.2.2 Setting the transaction volume and backup volume
4.9.2.3 Preparing a device map file
4.9.3 Backup
4.9.4 Restoration
Chapter 5 Backup Process That Uses the Suspend/Resume Function
5.1 Overview
5.2 Backup Operation Design
5.3 Flow of Operations
5.4 Preparations
5.4.1 Setting up the AdvancedCopy Manager environment
5.4.2 Setting storage server configuration information
5.4.3 Setting device information
5.4.4 Setting a backup policy
5.4.5 Preparing a device map file
5.5 Backup Operations
5.5.1 Starting synchronous processing
5.5.2 Backing up
5.5.3 Displaying the synchronous processing execution status
5.5.4 Cancelling synchronous processing
5.5.5 History management
5.5.6 Restoring
Chapter 6 Backup Operation by the QuickOPC Function
6.1 Overview
6.2 Designing Backup Operation
6.3 Operation Flow
6.4 Preparation
6.4.1 Configuring the AdvancedCopy Manager environment
6.4.2 Setting the environment for Storage server
6.4.3 Setting the operation type for a device
6.4.4 Setting a backup policy
6.4.5 Preparing a device map file
6.5 Operation
6.5.1 Executing backup
6.5.2 History management
6.5.3 Restoration
6.5.4 Canceling restoration
6.5.5 Displaying the execution status of tracking processing
6.5.6 Stopping tracking processing
Chapter 7 Replication
7.1 Overview
7.1.1 Snapshot replication processing
7.1.2 Synchronized replication processing
7.2 Operation Design
7.2.1 Determining the server that performs replication
7.2.2 Determining a replication target
7.2.2.1 Notes on the replication volume
7.2.3 Notes of the design in SnapOPC replication
7.2.3.1 Notes on session settings
7.2.3.2 Creating a Snap Data Disk
7.2.3.3 Cluster Operations
7.3 Flow of Operations
7.4 Preparations
7.4.1 Starting a daemon
7.4.2 Starting the initial screen
7.4.3 Registering a storage server
7.4.4 Fetching device information from a storage server
7.4.5 Setting the original volume and replica volume
7.4.6 Customizing a script of Preprocessing and Postprocessing
7.4.7 Creating groups
7.4.7.1 Conditions for the replication volume information that makes up the group
7.4.7.2 How to create groups
7.5 Operations
7.5.1 Executing snapshot replication
7.5.2 Executing synchronized replication
7.5.2.1 Intra-box synchronous replication
7.5.2.2 Inter-box synchronous replication
7.5.2.2.1 Initial copy skip function
7.5.2.3 Concurrent suspension function
7.5.3 Backup and restoration using the replication function
7.6 Changing the Setting Information
7.6.1 Changing an original volume or replica volume
7.6.2 Deleting an original volume or replica volume
7.6.3 Changing the device information of an original or replica volume
7.7 Stopping the Operation
7.8 LVM Volume Operation
7.8.1 Replication operation in units of volume groups
7.8.1.1 Operation design
7.8.1.2 Preparations
7.8.1.2.1 Setting the original volume and replica volume
7.8.1.2.2 Customizing the preprocessing and postprocessing scripts
7.8.1.3 Replication in units of volume groups
7.8.2 Replication in units of physical disks
7.8.2.1 Operation design
7.8.2.2 Preparations
7.8.2.2.1 Setting the original and replica volumes
7.8.2.3 Replication in units of physical disks
7.9 VxVM Volume Operation
7.9.1 Operation design
7.9.2 Preparations
7.9.2.1 Confirming the disk group configuration information file
7.9.2.2 Setting the original and replica volumes
7.9.3 Replication
Chapter 8 Operation Maintenance
8.1 Maintaining a database
8.1.1 Making individually backup of databases
8.1.1.1 Maintaining a backup a management list
8.1.1.1.1 Backing up a backup management list
8.1.1.1.2 Restoring a backup management list
8.1.1.1.3 Preserving the volume configuration infomation
8.1.1.2 Maintaining a replication management list
8.1.1.2.1 Backing up a replication management list
8.1.1.2.2 Restoring a replication management list
8.1.1.2.3 Preserving the volume configuration infomation
8.1.1.3 Maintaining a database
8.1.1.4 Maintaining authentication management list
8.1.1.5 Maintaining a registry
8.1.1.5.1 Backing up a registry
8.1.1.5.2 Restoring a registry
8.1.2 Making a package backup of databases
8.1.2.1 Preliminaries
8.1.2.2 Backup operations
8.1.2.3 Restore operations
8.2 Troubleshooting
8.2.1 Troubleshooting for insufficient free space in a repository
8.2.2 Collecting maintenance information
8.2.2.1 Collecting information using a Web window
8.2.2.2 Collecting error survey information
8.2.3 Troubleshooting for a failure in access to a repository database
8.3 Troubleshooting for a hardware error, etc. occurring during backup
8.3.1 Overview
8.3.2 Troubleshooting
8.3.2.1 Troubleshooting for a hardware error, etc. on a transaction volume
8.3.2.2 Troubleshooting for a hardware error, etc. on a backup volume
8.3.2.3 Troubleshooting for an error (halt) on a remote copy processing
8.4 Troubleshooting for a Hardware Error or Other Error Occurring during Replication
8.4.1 Overview
8.4.2 Troubleshooting
8.4.2.1 Troubleshooting for a hardware error on a replication volume
8.4.2.2 Troubleshooting for an error (halt) on a remote copy processing
8.5 Changing the Operating Environment
8.5.1 Changing the IP address of a storage management server
8.5.2 Changing the IP address of a storage server
8.5.3 Changing the port number of a storage management server
8.5.4 Changing the port number of a storage server
8.5.5 Changing the server name of a storage management server
8.5.6 Changing the server name of a storage server
8.5.7 Changing the device configuration
8.5.7.1 Backup management
8.5.7.2 Replication management
8.5.8 Changing the IP address for GUI connection of a Storage management server
8.5.9 Change of deletion/password of the user who specified it as the repository access user
8.5.10 About change of the employment environment in cluster employment
8.5.10.1 Changing the IP address of a storage server transaction
8.5.10.2 Changing the port number of a storage server transaction
8.5.10.3 Changing the server name of a storage server transaction
8.5.10.4 Changing the logical node name
8.5.10.5 Changing the service name
8.5.10.6 Changing a shared disk for shared data
Chapter 9 Commands
9.1 Backup Management Commands
9.1.1 Environment definition commands
9.1.1.1 Storage server configuration information setting command (swstsvrset)
9.1.1.2 Storage server configuration information display command (swstsvrdisp)
9.1.1.3 Device information setting command (swstdevinfoset)
9.1.1.4 Device usage status display command (swstdevdisp)
9.1.1.5 Backup policy setting command (swstbkpolset)
9.1.1.6 Backup policy display command (swstbkpoldisp)
9.1.1.7 Backup policy deletion command (swstbkpoldel)
9.1.2 Operation commands
9.1.2.1 Backup execution command (swstbackup)
9.1.2.2 Backup execution status display command (swstbackstat)
9.1.2.3 Restore execution command (swstrestore)
9.1.2.4 Restore cancellation command (swstcancelrest)
9.1.2.5 Restore execution status display command (swstreststat)
9.1.2.6 History information display command (swsthistdisp)
9.1.2.7 History information deletion command (swsthistdel)
9.1.2.8 Backup synchronous processing start command (swststartsync)
9.1.2.9 Backup synchronous processing cancel command (swstcancelsync)
9.1.2.10 Backup synchronous processing progress display command (swstsyncstat)
9.1.2.11 Execution status display command (swstexecstat)
9.1.2.12 Tracking cancel command (swstcanceltrk)
9.1.2.13 Tracking status display command (swsttrkstat)
9.1.3 Maintenance commands
9.1.3.1 Resource match command (swstsrsemtch)
9.1.3.2 Resource backup command (swstresback)
9.1.3.3 Resource restore command (swstresrst)
9.2 Configuration Management Commands
9.2.1 Management server information change command (stgcmmodnode)
9.2.2 Repository access user change command (stguserset)
9.2.3 GUI connection information setting command (stgguiipset)
9.2.4 Server information addition command (stgxfwcmaddsrv)
9.2.5 Server information change command (stgxfwcmmodsrv)
9.2.6 Server information deletion command (stgxfwcmdelsrv)
9.2.7 Device information collection/reflection command (stgxfwcmsetdev)
9.2.8 Device information deletion command (stgxfwcmdeldev)
9.2.9 Server information display command (stgxfwcmdispsrv)
9.2.10 Device information display command (stgxfwcmdispdev)
9.2.11 Partition information display command (stgxfwcmdisppat)
9.2.12 Environment information display command (stgenvdisp)
9.2.13 Management information package backup server registration/deletion command (stgmgrinfoset)
9.2.14 Management information package backup command (stgmgrinfobkup)
9.2.15 Management information package backup status display command (stgmgrinfodisp)
9.3 Replication Management Command
9.3.1 Environment definition commands
9.3.1.1 Replication volume information setting command (swsrpsetvol)
9.3.1.2 Replication volume information display command (swsrpvolinfo)
9.3.1.3 Replication volume information deletion command (swsrpdelvol)
9.3.1.4 REC transfer buffer information display command(swsrprecbuffstat)
9.3.1.5 REC transfer buffer settings change command(swsrprecbuffset)
9.3.2 Operation commands
9.3.2.1 Synchronous processing start command (swsrpstartsync)
9.3.2.2 Replication creation command (swsrpmake)
9.3.2.3 Operation status display command (swsrpstat)
9.3.2.4 Replication cancellation command (swsrpcancel)
9.3.2.5 Synchronization mode change command (swsrpchsync)
9.3.2.6 Synchronization reverse command (swsrprevsync)
9.3.3 Maintenance commands
9.3.3.1 Resource adjustment command (swsrprecoverres)
9.4 Start/Stop Daemon Commands
9.4.1 Starting and stopping the communication daemon
9.4.2 Starting and stopping AdvancedCopy Manager daemons
9.5 SnapOPC Support Commands
9.5.1 Update volume measurement command (swstestupdate)
Chapter 10 Notes on Operations
10.1 Notes on Backup and Replication Operation
10.1.1 General notes
10.1.2 Notes on the snapshot high-speed backup
10.1.3 Notes on synchronous high-speed backup
10.1.4 Notes on restoration
10.1.5 Notes on cluster operation
10.1.6 Notes on backup operation in cluster operation
10.1.6.1 Making a backup and restoration during stoppage of the package
10.1.7 Notes on replication operation in cluster operation
10.1.7.1 Making a replication during stoppage of the package
10.2 Notes on the Web Window Environment
Appendix A Preprocessing and Postprocessing of Backup and Restoration
A.1 Overview
A.2 Preprocessing and Postprocessing of Backup
A.2.1 Preprocessing of backup
A.2.2 Postprocessing of backup
A.3 Preprocessing and Postprocessing of Restoration
A.3.1 Preprocessing of restoration
A.3.2 Postprocessing of restoration
Appendix B Preprocessing and Postprocessing of Replication
B.1 Overview
B.2 Preprocessing and Postprocessing of Replication
B.2.1 Preprocessing and postprocessing for a file system
B.2.2 Preprocessing when replication is executed
B.2.3 Postprocessing when replication is executed
Appendix C Sample Shell Script for Backup Operations
C.1 Overview
C.2 Backup and Restoration of a Transaction volume
C.2.1 Backup procedure
C.2.2 Restoration procedure
C.3 Sample Shell Scripts for Oracle
C.3.1 Overview of sample shell scripts
C.3.1.1 Collecting DB information
C.3.1.2 Backup
C.3.2 Applying the sample shell scripts
C.3.2.1 DB information collection
C.3.2.2 Backup
C.3.3 Restore Method
C.3.4 Notes about using the sample shell scripts
C.4 Sample Shell Scripts for DB2
C.4.1 Overview of sample shell scripts
C.4.1.1 Collecting DB information
C.4.1.2 Backup
C.4.2 Applying the sample shell scripts
C.4.2.1 DB information collection
C.4.2.2 Backup
C.4.3 Restore Method
C.4.4 Notes about using the sample shell scripts
Glossary