Disaster Recovery

Automated System Recovery

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

 

Requirements

 

• Data Protector Automatic Disaster Recovery component must be

 

installed on systems for which you want to enable recovery using

 

ASR. See the HP OpenView Storage Data Protector Installation and

 

Licensing Guide.

Hardware

• The hardware configuration of the target system must be identical to

Configuration

that of the original system, except for hard disk drives, video cards

 

and network interface cards. If you have replaced a network card or a

 

video card, you will have to manually configure it.

 

• Floppy disk drive must be installed.

 

• Floppy and CD drives must be connected to IDE or SCSI controllers.

 

External devices such as USB or PCMCIA devices are not supported.

Hard Disk Drives • The target system must have the same number of physical disks with critical volumes as the original system.

Replacement disks must be attached to the same host bus adapter on the same bus.

The storage capacity of each replacement disk on the target system must be bigger than or equal to the capacity of the corresponding disk on the original system. In addition, disk geometry of the replacement disk must be the same as on the replaced disk.

All disks on the target system must have 512 bytes-per-sector.

All disks used in ASR must be accessible to the system (hardware RAID must be configured, SCSI disks must be correctly terminated, etc.)

When backing up the client, the default 64 kB block size should be used to write to the device if you plan to perform an offline restore. This is the only default block size available on Windows when performing disaster recovery. To verify that the default 64 kB block size is set, choose Advanced in the Properties box, as shown in Figure 10-4:

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HP B6960-90078 manual ASR. See the HP OpenView Storage Data Protector Installation, Hardware