Re: Disaster recovery for clusters

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"CFPDSA" <CFPDSA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:72FEFCE4-A9C1-4278-9649-694AF2B1F219@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
While I wouldn't claim to have memorized it, I did read the entire document
prior to beginning my testing. It appears to emphasize the backup/restore
method of recovering clusters instead of the rebuild approach actually
recommended by PSS. Naturally, this led me to believe that a system state
backup should be sufficient to restore a cluster from scratch, except that in
my testing it did not in fact work as advertised (though the ASR did one must
say).

I do understand what you are saying. Personally, I always evict the node, rebuild it from scratch using the build documentation that was created the first time, add it to the cluster, then install the appropriate applications.

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