Disaster Recovery

Assisted Manual Disaster Recovery of a Windows System

Requirements

The partitions have to be the same size or larger than the partitions on the failed disk. This way the information stored on the failed disk can be restored to the new one. Also, the type of filesystem and compression attributes of the volumes must match (FAT, NTFS).

The hardware configuration of the target system must be the same as of the original system. This includes SCSI BIOS settings (sector remapping).

Limitation

Internet Information Server (IIS) Database, Terminal Services Database and Certificate Server Database are not restored automatically during Phase 2. They can be restored on the target system using the standard Data Protector restore procedure.

Boot and system partition on Windows NT 4.0 must be physically bellow the first 7,8 GB due to the operating system limitations. Refer to MSDN Q224526 for more information and workaround for the problem.

 

Preparation

 

To prepare for a successful disaster recovery, you should follow the

 

instructions related to the general preparation procedure together with

 

the specific method requirements. Advance preparation is essential to

 

perform the disaster recovery fast and efficiently. You should also give

 

special attention to the disaster recovery preparation of the Cell

 

Manager.

 

It is too late to prepare for a disaster recovery once a disaster

WARNING

 

has occurred.

 

See also “Preparing for a Disaster Recovery” on page 443, in addition to

 

 

completing the steps listed in this section. To recover from a disaster

 

quickly and efficiently, consider the following steps and prepare your

 

environment accordingly:

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