HP B6960-90078 manual One Button Disaster Recovery of a Windows System, 472

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Disaster Recovery

One Button Disaster Recovery of a Windows System

One Button Disaster Recovery of a Windows System

One Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR)is a fully automated Data Protector recovery method for Windows clients and Cell Manager, where user intervention is reduced to minimum. For details on supported operating systems, refer to the HP OpenView Storage Data Protector Software Release Notes.

OBDR collects all relevant environment data automatically at backup time. During backup, data required for temporary DR OS setup and configuration is packed in a single large OBDR image file and stored on the backup tape. When a disaster occurs, OBDR device (backup device, capable of emulating CD-ROM) is used to boot the target system directly from the tape which contains the OBDR image file with disaster recovery information.

Data Protector then installs and configures the disaster recovery operating system (DR OS), formats and partitions the disks and finally restores the original operating system with Data Protector as it was at the time of backup.

You have to perform a new backup after each hardware, software or configuration change. This also applies to any network configuration changes, such as change of IP address or DNS server.

The recovered volumes are:

•the boot partition

•the system partition

•the partitions containing Data Protector

Any remaining partitions can be recovered using the standard Data Protector recovery procedure.

The following sections explain the requirements, limitations, preparation and recovery pertaining to One Button Disaster Recovery on Windows systems. See also “Advanced Recovery Tasks” on page 490.

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