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

10 Disaster Recover y

In this chapter

• Bootable devices

• Imp ortant guidelines

•CreatetheDisasterRecoveryBackup

• Testing Disaster Recovery Media

• Recover ing From a Disaster

• Disaster Recover y with Libraries

• Recover Windows Active Director y (Windows only)

•Limitations

Bare Metal Disaster Recovery (DR) is a Data Protector E xpress agent tha t performs d isaster recovery

operations as automatically as possible during initial preparation and recovery. It allows you to create

bootable media which you use to recover your system c onﬁguration, software and data following a

system or disk failure.

If you create a full backup to any removable device that supports bootable media, that media will

be bootable and c an be used for bare-metal recovery. Devices that support bootable media include

removable cartridge disk d rives, any external disk drive connected via USB or Firewire, and a ny tape

drive that supports One-Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR). If you use other backup devices, you must

create bootable media as a separate step a fter running your backup job.

Disaster Recovery (DR) o perates without the beneﬁt of the Data Protector Express catalog. When it

restores data it restores the entire contents of each m e dia provided. The media can be supplied in any

order b ut if there are incremental or differential backups on the media set along with the full backup,

objects will be restored in the order they are found on media and the results may not contain the m ost

current versions of the backed-up data.

Data Protector Express do not support the Disaster Recovery feature. If your edition does not support

Disaster Recovery, any job that attempts to use the fea ture will report that the feature is not licensed.

If you need this feature, contact your reseller to purchase an edition of Data Protector Express that

supports Disaster Recovery.

NOTE:

You will only be able to perform bare-metal recovery to the same or an nearly-identical computer.

Bootable devices

Backup devices that suppor t bootable media and bare-metal recovery include ...

• removable cartridge disk drives and

• tape drives that support One-Button Disaster Recovery.

Your computer must be able to boot from a device before it can be used for disaster recovery. Please

refer to the computer manufacturer’s documentation on how to boot from a removable device.

One-Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR) is a ﬁrmware feature that is supported on some tape d rives which

enablesthetapedrivetoactlikeabootableCD-ROMwhenitisputintoDisasterRecoverymode.When

you create a full backup on an O BDR tape drive, Data Protector Express product automatically makes the

mediabootable. WhenyourunOne-ButtonDisasterRecovery,(normallybyacombinationofpower

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