HP B6960-90078 manual Recovery, 486

Disaster Recovery

Automated System Recovery

Recovery

To successfully perform a disaster recovery of the crashed system, you need the following:

•A new hard disk to replace your crashed disk.

•A successful full client backup of the client that you want to recover.

•Updated ASR set.

•Windows installation medium.

ASR Procedure The following is a step-by-step procedure for performing ASR:

1.Boot from the Windows installation medium.

2.Press F2 during the start of the OS setup to enter the ASR mode.

3.Provide the first (updated) diskette from the ASR set.

4.After reboot, Disaster Recovery Wizard pops-up and requires input for the DR installation source and SRD Path. DR installation and SRD file are both located on the first diskette of the ASR set (a:\).

5.Change diskette(s) when prompted.

Original storage structure will be automatically reestablished and all critical data automatically restored based on the information in the ASR set.

6.Reboot the system when prompted and remove the Windows installation medium and ASR diskette.

7.Restore user and application data using the standard Data Protector restore procedure.

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