Disaster Recovery

Manual Disaster Recovery of an UNIX Cell ManagerManual Disaster Recovery of an UNIX CellManager

Manual Disaster Recovery is a basic method, that involves recovering the system by reinstalling it in the same way as it was initially installed. In addition, Data Protector is used to then restore all files, including the operating system.

Limitation

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

This description does not cover the recovery of a cluster environment. Depending on the configuration of the cluster environment, additional steps and modification to the environment are necessary.

Preparation

Perform the same preparatory steps without the steps pertaining to the auxiliary disk, as for Disk Delivery Disaster Recovery of an HP-UX or Solaris client. See “Preparation” on page 507 for reference. In addition to completing those steps, you also have to complete the following:

1.The IDB has to be backed up regularly, ideally in a separate backup specification, scheduled after the backup of the Cell Manager.

2.The IDB and configuration backup must run to a specific device located on the Cell Manager system, to make the administrator aware that the medium in the device contains the most recent version of the IDB.

Recovery

Use the following method to recover your UNIX Cell Manager.

Prerequisites You will need the following to successfully perform a disaster recovery:

•Media containing the last valid known backup of the root partition of the Cell Manager and IDB.

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