About redmantra

redmantra · 01-20-2015

Hi, I have a Windows 2008 R2 client running SQL 2008. I am currently doing a DR test whereby the master sql db is recovered first before recoverin all the other databases. The SQL server is not a cluster and so moving sql into single user mode ...

redmantra · 12-08-2014

Currently I have configured my VMware environment to snapshot virtual machines successfully. However, there are some cases where I would like to snapshot at volume level (i.e snapshot the C: drive only). Is this possible in NetBackup 7.5 and onward...

redmantra · 02-02-2015

Looks like the issue was down to the SQL client being in the wrong OU. Thanks for pointers anyway. Geoff.

redmantra · 01-21-2015

Thanks for info Yasuhisa. As you can see from my description this is non clustered and so NBU will do the single to multi user mode itself as you say. However, there is no requirement for me to rebuild the master db as I can recover it only if back...

redmantra · 12-08-2014

Daniel, A couple of options there which I'd thought of, but current infrastructure won't allow. Dedupe, Accelerator and all that nice stuff is out of reach at the moment, so it's looking like standard backups as if they were physical or else I need...

redmantra · 12-08-2014

Daniel, Good info thanks. The more I look into this, the more flags are raised. I think this may be OK for certain scenarios, but If I add more info to my issue, you may see why it wouldn't work. Because we want to backup SQL as well, we can p...

redmantra · 12-08-2014

Marianne, Thanks for pointer. I have just sat down wioth our VMware guys and discussed this further and found some interesting bits on the VMware site. You're correct in that we can't seperate the snapshots at volume level. However, for extra ...

VOX

User Statistics

User Activity

Unable to restore SQL2008 master db only from a $ALL db backup

NetBackup Volume Level Snapshot based backup using VMware?

Looks like the issue was down

Thanks for info Yasuhisa. As

Daniel, A couple of options

Daniel, Good info thanks.

Marianne, Thanks for