You can setup a disaster recovery (DR) solution with cross-site restore functionality of snapshots or backups.
- Disaster recovery with cross-site restore of snapshots. See Creating a Standard Backup or Snapshot and Restoring a Snapshot.
- Disaster recovery with cross-site restore of DSA backups.
Disaster Recovery with Snapshots
You can perform disaster recovery from snapshots and restore to cross-site. Make sure the following prerequisites are met:
- The Analytics Database is on 17.10 version or later on both source and target systems.
- The number of nodes and AMPs must match on both systems.
- The storage per node must be same or more in target system, as compared to source.
- The VM type or size can vary, but must have the same number of AMPs per node.
See Creating a Standard Backup or Snapshot and Restoring a Snapshot for more details.
Disaster Recovery with DSA Backups
You can perform disaster recovery from backups and restore to cross-site. Make sure the following prerequisites are met:
- Both source and target systems are on Vantage 2.4.2.
- Prerequisites of partial backups are met on source site. See Standard Backups.
- Prerequisites of same-site restore are met on target site. See Restoring a Standard Backup.When performing disaster recovery with a Backup (DR), by default, the target site is selected as set in the Backup (DR) plan. Do not change it.
Restoring from a Backup (DR)
Perform the following steps on backup (DR).
- Log on to https://cloud.vantage.teradata.com.
- Select Data protection .
- Select Retained copies.
- Select the Backup (DR) to restore.By default, the target site is selected as set in the Backup (DR) plan. Do not change it.
- Select Save & Run. If requested, provide credentials, and select Save & Start.
- Open the History tab and check the Status of the restore job.