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Thoughts I'd post this rather than bugging our SE over and over ;)



Trying to get a disaster recovery plan in place to protect against a major disaster such as server room fire...



We have a couple of clusters geographically separated which I have set up as remote-sites. Site A and B lets call them.



I've set up a PD w/ consistency group with the VMs to protect and periodically snapshot from site A to B. Now in the case of a fire/destroyed cluster at site A... obviously step one is rebuilding a cluster at that site with the appropriate configs, but then...



With a brand new cluster in place, what is the standard process to retreive the snapshots from site B back to the new site A ?



So far, I've activated the backup on site B (as if it was an unplanned outage and left it off). and recreated the remote-site link on the newly built out site A. I am thinking I now create a new PD to shuffle the VMs/consistency group back to Site A and then activate there and I am done ?



I know this works as I've done it now. But is this the 'preferred method'?



I'd appreciate any thoughts from the gurus out there ;)



thanks, Brent
Basically you remake the PD with the same name, and that will allow you to pull the PD/snaps back
(Standard Disclaimer) if this were to happen in real life, always make a support ticket before doing anything, and we'll help point you in the right direction.
ha! perfect thanks for the pointer, I completely missed that
Could you pre-build the failback PD? No scheduled replications etc. but then after you migrate to the failover location it might allow expedite of the failback?
- hrmm, I dont think I understand the prompt there.



If you had 2 clusters, A and B, and you migrated a PD from A to B, and cluster A still existed, then by definition the PD would "be there" with some seed data, allowing you to re-replicate and fail back much easier.



In the case where cluster A "went away", then you can't really pre-build anything.







That said, If I missed the mark on understanding this, feel free to restate and I'll take a second swing.



Cheers,

Jon
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