Data Protector Express User's Guide (TC330-96002, October 2010)

To perform Disaster Recovery for one of the operating system listed above, do the following:

1. Remove all m edia from all car tridge disk drives, tape drives and/or library magazine slots.

2. Insert the ﬁrst bootable media:

a. If you are using a single tape or removable disk drive, insert the ﬁrst bootable media into

the drive.

b. If you are using a library, insert the ﬁrst (or only) bootable med ia into slot 1 of the ma g azine. If

the full backup used t wo or more media, insert the rest of the full backup med ia into the library

magazine in their proper order. See Disaster Recovery with Libraries below.

3. Per form any special steps for booting your computer from the bootable device (refer to your device

and system documentation). Most bootable drives use a combination of power cycling and pressing

the Ejec t button on the front panel. Many also require that you update the computer BIOS.

NOTE:

For disaster recov ery, use only full backup media that were created with the Overwrite all media

option. After disaster recovery is complete and your system has restarted, use the standard Data

Protector Express options to restore any incremental or differential media to your system. The

standard Data Protector Express rest ore procedure optimizes restoration and restores incremental

and differential media faster than the disaster recovery process.

4. When the Disaster Recovery (Phase 2) screen appears, select one of the following options:

a. Recover Boot Disk. Select this option to only recover the boot disk. Use it if your boot disk

is corrupt or if you replaced the boot disk.

NOTE:

It is a good practice to disconnect any drives you do not want modiﬁed during the recovery

process to protect yourself from inadvertently overwriting them by selecting an undesired option.

b. Recover Entire System. Select this option to recover data to multiple hard disks, including the

boot disk. Use this option if you replaced one or m ore hard disks.

NOTE:

If you are

restoring a LINUX system, the only option is to Recover Entire System, there is no

option to Recover Boot Disk.

5. Press Enter.

6. If a warning screen appears, read it and then press F10.

7. Read through each information screen. Press F10 to advance to the next screen.

8. When the ﬁrst conﬁrmation message appears “Are you sure?”,selecttheappropriateYes option

and press Enter.

9. When the second conﬁrmation message appears, select Yes , Perform the Recovery and press Enter.

Thesystemdoesnotrequireanyinputfromyouuntilitﬁnishes restoring the ﬁrst media to your system.

Restoring the ﬁrst media can take from minutes to two or three hours, depending on the amount of

data on the media, the speed and capabilities of the device and whether you are recovering the

entire system or just the boot disk.

10. After the system has restored the media, it asks for the next media to restore. Select Yes or press

F10 to restore another media.

11. After restoring the last media, remove the disaster recovery CD or DVD so that you can boot from the

hard disk in subsequent steps.

Disaster Recovery