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Special Forums UNIX and Linux Applications Infrastructure Monitoring Monitoring file systems backup Post 302901023 by frhling on Saturday 10th of May 2014 04:34:12 PM
Old 05-10-2014
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
 

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clusvcadm(8)						       Red Hat Cluster Suite						      clusvcadm(8)

NAME
clusvcadm - Cluster User Service Administration Utility SYNOPSIS
clusvcadm [-d <service> ] [-e <service> ] [-l] [-u] [-S] [-m <member> ] [-r <service> ] [-R <service> ] [-M <service> ] [-Z <service> ] [-U <service> ] [-s <service> ] [-v] DESCRIPTION
The clusvcadm command allows an administrator to enable, disable, relocate, and restart user services in a cluster. In order to perform cluster service operations, the cluster daemons must be running (and have quorum) on the member system on which the command is invoked. OPTIONS
-d <service> Stops and disables the user service named service -e <service> Enables and starts the user service named service -l Lock services in preparation for cluster shutdown. This should only be used if the administrator intends to perform a global, clus- ter wide shutdown. This prevents services from starting (but not stopping, like -Z does). Once the cluster quorum is dissolved, this state is reset. If a new instance of rgmanager boots while others are locked, the behavior is undefined. -u Unlock resource group managers. This allows services to start again. -S Display whether the resource group managers are locked or not. This can be used to verify the correct operation of the -l and -u options, but is only useful for debugging. -m <member> When used in conjunction with either the -e or -r options, this specifies the preferred target member on which to start the service. -r <service> Relocates the user service named service to another cluster member. -R <service> Restarts the user service named service on the cluster member on which it is currently running. -M <service> Use a special "migration" operation to move the user service named service to another cluster member. Currently, this is only use- ful for virtual machines. Use of migration usually requires special configuration of the local virtual machine manager in order to work correctly. -Z <service> Freezes the service named service on the cluster member on which it is currently running. This will prevent status checks of the service as well as failover in the event the node fails or rgmanager is stopped. -U <service> Unfreezes the user service named service on the cluster member on which it is currently running. This will re-enable status checks. -s <service> Stops the service named service until a member transition or until it is enabled again. -v Display version information and exit. NOTES
Executing -U (unfreeze) on a service which was frozen in the started state while the service owner is offline results in an undefined (and possibly dangerous) condition. Manually ensure all resources are clear before doing this. SEE ALSO
clustat(8) Jan 2005 clusvcadm(8)
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