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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide
  3. Configuring BMR
  4. Configuring BMR Servers
  5. Configuring BMR Boot Server
  6. BMR boot servers in a UNIX cluster
Veritas NetBackup™ Bare Metal Restore™ Administrator's Guide

BMR boot servers in a UNIX cluster

The following are general instructions for using a BMR boot server in a clustered environment:

  • In the clustering application, set up a virtual IP address on the nodes that provide the BMR boot server functionality.

  • Install the NetBackup client software on each node. You can register the Bare Metal Restore boot server on each node that has NetBackup client installed.

    See the NetBackup Installation Guide. The NetBackup client software includes the BMR boot server software (if BMR supports the platform).

  • On each node, configure the NetBackup client name to be the name that resolves to the virtual IP address. Use that name for the last CLIENT_NAME entry in the bp.conf file on the system.

  • Set up the boot server on active node.

    See Setting up a BMR boot server.

  • Create a cluster application resource that calls the following start and stop scripts for the boot server daemon:

    /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/rc.bmrbd start

    /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/rc.bmrbd stop

  • When you create SRTs, choose a location on a file system on the shared disk.

  • If a boot server fails over and restore tasks are not completed, perform a new prepare-to-restore operation for each incomplete restore task.

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