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IMPORTANT

IMPORTANT

Disaster Recovery

Automated System Recovery

Automated System Recovery

Automated System Recovery (ASR) is an automated system on Windows systems, which reconfigures a disk to its original state (or resizes the partitions if the new disk is larger than the original disk) in the case of a disaster. This includes disk partitioning and logical volume configuration (file formats, drive letter assignments, volume mountpoints, and volume characteristics). ASR thus enables the Data Protector drstart.exe command to install the active DR OS which provides Data Protector disk, network, tape and file system access.

Data Protector then recovers the target system to the original system configuration and finally restores all user data.

For details on supported operating systems, refer to the HP OpenView Storage Data Protector Software Release Notes.

You have to perform a full client backup after each hardware, software or configuration change and to update the ASR diskettes. This also applies to any network configuration changes, such as change of the IP address or DNS server.

You have to create the ASR set for the Cell Manager in advance, because you will not be able to obtain the ASR archive file after the disaster. ASR sets for other systems can be created using Cell Manager when a disaster occurs.

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.

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