Primary Site Procedures for Linux Remote Seeding

Create a Base Image Backup of the Linux Primary Node

From your master server, perform a base Image backup of the appropriate nodes or volumes at the primary location.

Note. Before running a base backup, verify that the latest updates for the full installation of Catalogic DPX are operational.

To create a base Image backup of the Linux primary node:

1. Disable the change journal:

   1. Log into the primary node.

   2. Open the DPX command prompt and move to the product-directory/opt/DPX/bin folder.

   3. Type ./syncui to run the syncui utility.

   4. Type c s <ip address/resolvable hostname> sssnap to connect to the primary node.

   5. Type snap disablecj <volname> to disable the change journal.

   

   1. Type quit to exit the syncui utility.

2. Open the management console, select the Backup tab, then click Image.

Note. For this example, perform a base Image backup of volume /lvm under Linux Primary linux.client.

1. From the management console, create an Image backup job with the appropriate source and destination selections.

2. On the task pane, click Set Source Options.

3. In the NDMP File History Handling drop-down, click Disable File History.

4. In the Additional NDMP Environment field, type: NIB_BACKUP_SEEDING=Y.

5. Click Save Backup Job, save the job with a unique job name, then run the job.

Note. For this example, imagebaktest is the name of the backup job.

1. Select the Catalog tab, then click Job Functions. Note the job ID issued for this Image backup job.

Note. For this example, 1312649563 is the job ID.

Prepare the Linux Primary for Block Incremental Backups

Prepare the primary node for incremental backups by recording all important primary node information, then naming the Block incremental backup job, then running the seedcj command.

To prepare the Linux primary for Block incremental backups:

1. Create a name for the backup job.

Note. For this example, SNAPBAKTEST is the name of the job.

1. Obtain the volume serial number for each volume defined in the backup of the primary node:

   1. Log into the primary node.

   2. Open the DPX command prompt and move to the product-directory/opt/DPX/bin folder.

   3. Type ./syncui to run the syncui utility.

   4. Type c s <ip address/resolvable hostname> sssnap to connect to the primary node.

   5. Type snap discoverdisks to list detailed information for each volume of the primary node, including all volume serial numbers.

   

   1. Scroll to the volume, and note its serial number.

      Note. For this example, 6EED25D5 is the serial number for the /lvm volume.

      
   2. Run the seedcj command, substituting all appropriate values where any parameters appear: snap seedcj <Primary’sVolume> <SnapVaultJobName> <ImageBackupJob ID>

2. 

Type quit to exit the syncui utility.

Transport Linux Media to the Destination Site

Transport the physical media that contains the Image backup to its designated destination, that is, the location of the NetApp storage system.

Because the destination site requires this information when running the next part of the remote seeding process, document the full set of parameter and value combinations, as shown in the following table:

Parameter	(Example) Value
primary node logical name	linux.client
primary node backed up volume	/lvm
Image backup job name	imagebaktest
Image backup job ID	1312649563
primary node volume serial number	6EED25D5
Block backup job name	SNAPBAKTEST