Disaster Recovery

Enhanced Automated Disaster Recovery of a Windows System

 

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.

Disk and Partition

• With fault-tolerant disk drives on the OS level for Windows NT

Configuration

systems, mirror set is supported while stripe and volume set are not.

 

Dynamic disks are not supported on Windows 2000 (including mirror

 

set upgraded from Windows NT).

 

• New disk has to be the same size or bigger than the crashed disk. If it

 

is larger than the original disk, the difference will remain

 

unallocated.

 

• 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.

 

• Only vendor specific partitions of type 0x12 (including EISA) and

 

0xFE are supported for Enhanced Automated Disaster Recovery.

 

Preparation

 

Complete the steps described in the section “Preparing for a Disaster

 

Recovery” on page 443 in order to prepare for disaster recovery in

 

addition to completing the steps listed in this section. See also “Advanced

 

Recovery Tasks” on page 490.

 

 

IMPORTANT

You have to prepare for disaster recovery before a disaster occurs.

 

 

Prerequisite

Full client backup (including the configuration) is prerequisite for

 

successful EADR. See “Backing Up Filesystems (Logical Disk Drives)” on

 

page 168 and “Backing Up CONFIGURATION” on page 173.

DR Image File

Data required for temporary DR OS installation and configuration (DR

 

image) is packed in a single large file and stored on the backup medium

 

and optionally on the Cell Manager during a full client backup. If you

 

want to save the full disaster recovery image file to the Cell Manager for

 

all clients in the backup specification, perform the following steps:

 

1. In the Context List, select Backup.

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