HP B6960-90078 manual Preparing for a Disaster Recovery, Planning, Prepare for recovery

Disaster Recovery

Preparing for a Disaster Recovery

Preparing for a Disaster Recovery

Carefully follow the instructions in this section to prepare for a disaster recovery and to ensure fast and efficient restore. Preparation does not depend on the disaster recovery method, however, it does include developing a detailed disaster recovery plan, performing consistent and relevant backups and updating the SRD file on Windows.

Planning

Developing a detailed disaster recovery plan has a major impact on the success of a disaster recovery. To deploy disaster recovery in a large environment with many different systems, proceed as follows:

1.Plan

Planning must be prepared by IT administration and should include the following:

•Determine the systems that need to be recovered as well as the time and level of recovery. Critical systems are all systems required for network to function properly (DNS servers, domain controllers, gateways, etc.), Cell Managers and Media Agent clients.

•Determine a recovery method to be used (impacts the required preparations).

•Determine a method to obtain the required information at recovery time, such as the media that holds the IDB, location of updated SRD file and location and labels of Cell Manager backup media.

•Create a step-by-step detailed checklist to guide you through the process.

•Create and execute a test plan to confirm that the recovery will actually work.

2.Prepare for recovery

Depending on the recovery method to be used, the preparation should include:

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