Backup and Restore Functions
The backup and restore functions are used by applications to take snapshots of the current cluster configuration and restore those configurations at a later time. This can provide manual or automatic recovery after upgrades, installs, or tests.
In this section
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Creates a backup of the cluster database and all registry checkpoints.
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Clears the backup state for the cluster shared volume
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ClusterGetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint may be altered or unavailable. Instead, use GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint.
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ClusterGetVolumePathName may be altered or unavailable. Instead, use GetVolumePathName.
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Determines whether a path is on a cluster shared volume
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ClusterPrepareSharedVolumeForBackup may be altered or unavailable.
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Restores the cluster database and restarts the Cluster service on the node from which the function is called. This node is called the restoring node.
Note
This function is available for use in the operating systems specified in the Requirements section. Support for this function was removed in Windows Server 2008 and this function does nothing and returns ERROR_CALL_NOT_IMPLEMENTED.
Related topics
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Backing Up and Restoring the Failover Cluster Configuration Using VSS
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Backing Up and Restoring the Failover Cluster Configuration with Windows Server 2003