Disaster Recovery

Assisted Manual Disaster Recovery of a Windows System

\i386\tools\DRSetup (located on Data Protector installation medium) for 32 bit Windows Client or Cell Manager on two floppy disks (drsetup diskettes) or <Data_Protector_home>\Depot\DRSetup64 or \i386\tools\DRSetup64 (Data Protector installation medium) for 64 bit Windows systems on three floppy disks. In case of a disaster, save the updated SRD file of the crashed client to the first floppy disk (disk1). Only one set of drsetup diskettes is required per site for all Windows systems, but you must always copy an updated SRD file of the crashed client on the first floppy disk. If multiple SRD files are found, Data Protector will ask you to select the appropriate version.

6.In order to re-create disk partitions to their initial state prior to the crash, record the following information for each partition (it will be needed during the recovery process):

partitions length and order

drive letters assigned to the partitions

partitions filesystem type

This information is stored in the SRD file. The -typeoption in the diskinfo section of the SRD file shows the partition filesystem type for a particular partition:

Table 10-2

How to Determine the Filesystem Type from the SRD File

 

 

 

 

 

Type number

Filesystem

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

Fat12

 

 

 

 

 

 

4 and 6

Fat32

 

 

 

 

 

 

5 and 15

Extended partition

 

 

 

 

 

 

7

NTFS

 

 

 

 

 

 

11 and 12

Fat32

 

 

 

 

 

 

18

EISA

 

 

 

 

 

 

66

LDM partition

 

 

 

 

 

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