MS Cluster Config

DustyMiller · 13 Nov 2009 at 19:47

We have a MS 2003 R2 Ent two Node cluster, that we want to extract the cluster config, for all of the shares, and information sotres, and the like, is there an easy way to dump the config ???

morfmedia · 15 Nov 2009 at 11:26

No "Easy" way i'm aware of. You could dump out some of the info from HKLM\Cluster in the registry but I doubt that's everything you'd need.

Euphoria · 15 Nov 2009 at 14:09

morfmedia said:
No "Easy" way i'm aware of. You could dump out some of the info from HKLM\Cluster in the registry but I doubt that's everything you'd need.

As mentioned here thats the best way to back it up but the cluster is not designed to be backed up as its a cluster!

The Windows 2008 cluster migration tool can document and give you info from a 2003 cluster without actually migrating

McMuffin · 15 Nov 2009 at 22:28

You can do exactly what you require by using the Microsoft MPS reporting tool for clusters. This tool is usually used by PSS to analyse cluster configuations.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818742

McMuffin · 15 Nov 2009 at 22:32

Euphoria said:
As mentioned here thats the best way to back it up but the cluster is not designed to be backed up as its a cluster!

This statement isn't quite true, a MSCS cluster configuration is supposed to be backed up, you should have a regular backup of the system state on each node and a backup of the Quorum disk.

Euphoria · 15 Nov 2009 at 22:52

what do you use to backup the quorum disk? The system state is easy to backup but when you have many nodes to each cluster its hard to see them all going down?

I was not aware that the system state also backed up the cluster config as a cluster config on one would change them all.

McMuffin · 15 Nov 2009 at 23:05

The Quorum can be backed up by using NTBackup (or backup client of your choice) on the node which holds the relevant cluster resource.

I'd advise sticking to Microsoft best practice when using a MSCS setup, especially if you have customer/internal SLA/OLA to meet.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738279(WS.10).aspx

Bash · 16 Nov 2009 at 19:40

I'm sure if you have a backup of your cluster config, you should never need to backup the Quorum as it can easily be recreated with config details.

DustyMiller · 17 Nov 2009 at 17:36

I dont want a backup of that, that is hadnled by BE 12.5.

I want to do a full export of the config of all the shares, and such for DR purposes, as it may be quicker to re-add the shares than restore from the tapes. When you factor in the catalog time, and restore time.

morfmedia · 17 Nov 2009 at 18:02

Batch file to dump out the shares daily?

Net share?