High Availability Restore Procedure

You can use this procedure to reduce backup time ONLY for Exalead CloudView HA deployments where the secondary servers are simple duplicates of your primary server.

Warning: Do not use this procedure if the secondary servers support the Storage Service role.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
Backup Procedure
Restore Data
High Availability Backup Procedure

Restore Data on the Primary Server

  1. Stop Exalead CloudView.
  2. Restore data:
    1. Delete the content of the existing <DATADIR>.
    2. Copy/paste the backup data within the <DATADIR>.
  3. If you backed up the <INSTALLDIR>, restore it.
  4. Start Exalead CloudView.
  5. Check processes status using: 
    <DATADIR>\bin\cvinit.[bat|sh] status

Restore Data on the Secondary Servers

Context: On the secondary servers hosting the search servers and index replicas:

  1. Stop Exalead CloudView.
  2. Delete the existing <DATADIR>.
  3. If you backed up the <INSTALLDIR>, restore it.
  4. Reinstall the secondary server. See Install the Secondary Server.
  5. Start Exalead CloudView.