HP Fast Recovery Solution XP SW manual FRS overview, Disk Array

FRS overview

FRS is a Windows server tool designed to enable fast recovery when an Exchange storage group maintained on an HP disk array becomes damaged.

(1)Use Production Server to store production data on array primary volume.

Store

Production Server w/FRS

(2)Use FRS GUI on Recovery Server to copy production data to secondary array volume.

Disk Array

Primary

Copy

Secondary

(3)In the event of production data damage,

restore primary data from the secondary data using the FRS GUI on the Recovery Server.

Restore FRS Recovery Server

Recovery Data (read-only) is routinely available on the secondary disk for data mining or transport.

The FRS life cycle can be summarized as follows:

•(1) The production server maintains production storage groups or databases on specified production volumes of the disk array.

•(2) The FRS GUI runs on the recovery server. It captures copies of the Exchange storage groups from the production volumes and stores them on recovery volumes of the array. FRS creates, maintains, and manages these “recovery-ready” copies.

•(3) When a data corruption occurs, the administrator uses the FRS graphical user interface to replace the damaged storage group or database with the most recent known good recovery-ready copy.

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