RE: Help-cluster restore on Windows 2000

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From: Charles (Charles_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 00:43:02 -0700

Hi Bill,

Thanks for your reply. Actually we assumed the two cluster nodes and storage
didn't work at same time. Since there are so many shares, we prefer to
recover from backup instead manually cluster re-creation.

Best Regards,
Charles

"Bill P" wrote:

> Charles, have you looked at evicting the cluster node, going through the
> rebuild, then adding it back to the cluster? I assume you're using some SAN
> or NAS storage for the important files. If not, then you must be "mirroring"
> the data on the two servers?
> -b
>
> "Charles" wrote:
>
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > In my company ,we use Microsoft Cluster to protect our file server where
> > import documents are stored.
> >
> > we follow below procedure to restore our cluster if storage is
> > corrupted.
> >
> > 1 replace the storage ( data disk and quorum disk included)
> > 2 restore hard disk signature
> > 3 retore system state
> > 4 restore quotum information
> > 5 restart computer
> > 6 another computer joins the cluster
> >
> > However we tested this procedure 4 times, 2 succeeded, 2 failed. It seemed
> > that after restore, the cluster sometimes didn't regconize the hard disk
> > resources
> > correctly. We don't know what was wrong? I'm not sure if this is the right
> > steps to restore whole cluster, or there's offical cluster restore white
> > paper provided by Microsoft for guidance.
> >
> > Your reply is appreciated!
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Charles
> >

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