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05-10-2014

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Monitoring file systems backup

Hello,
I have some questions.
There are some File systems which are located on a SAN. There are two scenarios:
1) Some file systems are permanently mounted on certain servers
2) Others are part of a high availability cluster

In case of a cluster the needed file systems for a certain application are all visible to all cluster nodes (cluster servers) at the same time. A certain node is assigned to primarily run a certain service. Therefore it mounts the file system and provides the service as a new, virtual IP. The trick is now, that the virtual IP and virtual name can also be brought up by another cluster node in case the first one fails. This by itself is not a problem but it has turned out that this provides a problem for the backup because the backup is naturally file system oriented. From a user (or calling services) perspective the user only talks to the virtual IP and name, which never changes. He has no idea that this IP is in reality running on a physical cluster node with its own IP and name and on top of that the cluster nodes can even change.

by the default log file, I just get the machine names, mount points, full backup and incremental backups.

Now the question is how to be sure if file systems are correctly backed up?

I can think of some aproached:
1- check the list of file system and check the list of backed up files and compare to see if those FS are in back up. we pay attention to timestamp
2- the same as above but this time comparing also the size
3- check if machines in general are backed up
4- MD5 checksum

can someone give me any other idea and in general some suggestion?

Thanks

frhling

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scversions

scversions(1M)						  System Administration Commands					    scversions(1M)

NAME

       scversions - Sun Cluster version management

SYNOPSIS

       scversions [-c]

DESCRIPTION

       Note -

	 Beginning  with  the Sun Cluster 3.2 release, Sun Cluster software includes an object-oriented command set. Although Sun Cluster software
	 still supports the original command set, Sun Cluster procedural documentation uses only the object-oriented command set. For more  infor-
	 mation about the object-oriented command set, see the Intro(1CL) man page.

       The  scversions	command  commits  the cluster to a new level of functionality after a rolling-upgrade to new Sun Cluster software. With no
       arguments, the scversions command prints a message indicating whether a commitment is needed.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       -c	    Commit the set of nodes that are currently active members of the cluster to the highest possible level of functionality.

		    When you upgrade a node (either through upgrade to a new release of the product or by application of a patch) and boot it back
		    into  the  cluster, some of the internal protocols on that node might have to run at lower versions in order to cooperate cor-
		    rectly with other nodes in the cluster.  When the cluster is in this state, some administrative actions might be disabled  and
		    some new functionality introduced in the upgrade might be unavailable.

		    When  you  run  this  command once from any node after all nodes are upgraded, the cluster switches to the highest versions of
		    internal protocols possible. Assuming that all nodes have the same Sun Cluster software installed at that time, all new  func-
		    tionality becomes available and any administrative restrictions are removed.

		    If	a  node that has not been upgraded is an active member of the cluster at the time you run the -c option to scversions, the
		    command has no effect because the cluster is already running at the highest possible level of functionality.

		    If a node has not been upgraded and is not an active member of the cluster when you run the -c option to scversions (for exam-
		    ple,  if  that  node is down for maintenance), the internal protocols of the cluster are upgraded to the highest possible ver-
		    sions.  You might have to upgrade the node that was not an active member of the cluster to enable it to rejoin the cluster.

EXIT STATUS

       0	    Success

       non-zero     Failure

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWsczu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       scinstall(1M)

Sun Cluster 3.2 						    17 Aug 2007 						    scversions(1M)