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Disaster Recovery

Assisted Manual Disaster Recovery of a Windows System

Assisted Manual Disaster Recovery of a Windows System

The following sections explain how to prepare and execute an Assisted Manual Disaster Recovery on Windows systems. For details on supported operating systems, refer to the HP OpenView Storage Data Protector Software Release Notes.

Assisted Manual Disaster Recovery is an elementary method that consists of the following steps:

1.Installing the Windows NT operating system temporarily (temporary DR OS) or installing other Windows systems to its original location (active DR OS). This includes the creation and formatting of the boot and system partition, needed for the Windows installation.

2.Creating and formatting additional partitions as they existed on the crashed system, including original drive letter assignments.

3.Executing the Data Protector drstart.exe command, which will install a temporary Data Protector suite and start the restore of the system critical volumes.

4.Booting the system and deleting the Windows NT temporary installation.

5.Recovering the vendor-specific partition, if it existed before the disaster.

The preparation and recovery procedure are different for the recovery of a Data Protector client and of a Data Protector Cell Manager. The differences are marked in the text.

Note that Windows provide additional possibilities to recover a system before deciding on a disaster recovery. This can be done by booting the system in the safe mode or from the recovery floppy disks and trying to resolve problems. Another option is to start the computer using the last known good configuration.

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