04-04-2012 11:32 PM - edited 03-10-2019 06:58 PM
Hello,
I’m going through the config of both primary and secondary instances.
I noticed that there are some differences between instances. In the CLI, on the secondary instance, there’s nothing for:
In case of the primary instance goes down for a while, the secondary will take the lead. In that scenario, :
In other words, do we need to define repository and schedules backups on secondary instance too?
Thank you in advance for your reply.
04-05-2012 12:34 AM
Backup schedule is part of the system configuration. When a secondary assumes the primary role it should continue to work according to the defined scheduled
If you define a repository from the GUI (see System Administration > Operations > Software Repositories)
then it does get replicated to all the servers in the deployment. Repositories created from the CLI do not get replicated
Since this is so critical obviously worth testing first to make sure all is working should it be required
Can do the following
- define repository from the GUI. Confirm it is defined on both primary and secondary
- define backup schedule
- confirm primary backs up as defined
- promote a seconday
- confirm that next backup occurs at newly promoted secondary
In case primary goes down just promote the secondary. It should already have the database
04-05-2012 02:37 AM
Thanks for your reply.
I checked Software repositories and Scheduled backups on both instances from the GUI and settings are the same
Backups are already working fine from primary instance.
If I understand well, next steps are :
Could you please confirm ?
From Monitoring Config. --> Data Management --> Restore, there's a list of incremental backups done:
For specific reasons, some of them have been deleted. Is it possible to remove them from this view as well ?
04-11-2012 06:49 AM
Any idea ?
04-16-2012 02:45 AM
Hi,
I promoted on last friday secondary as primary and vice-versa. This morning, I checked the logs on my ftp server. It happears that the one which were previously the main instance (actually secondary) did the backup. It means that the actual primary instance didn't make any backup.
What's the reason for that ? Is it a normal behaviour ?
Thanks,
04-25-2012 11:03 PM
Hello,
Any idea regarding the backups I mentioned above ?
For me, the major issue would come in case of replacement of primary instance. We'll have to re-configure backup on newly promoted instance. And I'm pretty someone will forget that... Any clue on how to solve it ?
Thanks,
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