Disaster Recovery

Disk Delivery Disaster Recovery of a Windows Client

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You can refer to Table 10-3 on page 455 as an example of the preparation for the Disk Delivery disaster recovery. Refer to the Appendix A, “Windows Manual Disaster Recovery Preparation Template,” on page A-49for an empty template which can be used when preparing for the Disaster Recovery.

Recovery

This section provides the procedure for recovering your Windows client using the Disk Delivery method. See also “Advanced Recovery Tasks” on page 490

With the Disk Delivery method on Windows, use a Data Protector disaster recovery host (DR host) to restore the last valid known full backup of your crashed disk to a new hard disk connected to the client. Then replace your crashed disk on the faulty system with this new hard disk.

Disk Delivery The actual Disk Delivery Disaster Recovery procedure consists of the Disaster Recovery following steps:

Procedure

1.Connect the new disk to a DR host.

2.Reboot the DR host to recognize the new disk.

3.Use Data Protector GUI on disaster recovery host and switch to the Restore context and click the Tasks tab. Select the Disaster Recovery item in the Scoping Pane, select the client from the drop down list and check the Disaster recovery with disk delivery in the Results Area.

4.For each of the critical objects, select an object version that will be restored and click Next.

5.If partitioning has not already been done, partition the new disk using the Disk Administrator. Use the partition information you have gathered as part of the preparation for Disk Delivery disaster recovery.

6.When partitioning the system, you have to assign partitions in the same order as prior to the time that the full backup was performed. This simplifies drive letter reassignment after the restore and prevents a possibility of failure at system restart because of an inappropriate path to the system partition in the boot.ini file.

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