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How Arcserve Backup Integrates with MSCS

Arcserve Backup is a fault-tolerant application, capable of supporting failover in cluster environments. Arcserve Backup protects cluster nodes by backing up and restoring cluster-specific resources such as shared disks, quorum resources, disk signatures, and cluster registry hives. Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) allows multiple Windows based servers to connect with one another so that they appear, to network clients, to be a single, highly available system.

With the MSCS support provided by Arcserve Backup, you can:

• Back up and restore MSCS nodes
• Run on, and take advantage of, MSCS high availability features such as:
  • Job failover from one Arcserve Backup node in a cluster to another node
  • High availability through automatic failover of Arcserve Backup services from one node in a cluster to another node
  • Install Arcserve Backup to an Active/Passive cluster as your SAN primary server and allow continuation of distributed server backups upon failover
  • Manageability through standard cluster management tools
• Provide disaster protection for MSCS nodes using the Arcserve Backup Disaster Recovery Option. For more information, see the Disaster Recovery Option Guide.
• Backup and restore applications, such as MS SQL Server and MS Exchange Server, installed on MSCS clusters using the Arcserve Backup agents. For more information on available agents, see the Implementation Guide.