HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring Evaluation Guide (T2558-96326, April 2009)

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Restoring your data
If you are not using failover and your connection is for disaster recovery, the Management Console
providesan easy method for restoring replicated data from the target back to the original source or
to a new source server. You are only required to input the original source, the target, and the name
of the replication set you want to restore. Storage Mirroring handles the rest, including selecting the
files in the replication set and restoring them to the correct location.
1. From the Management Console, select Tools, Restoration Manager.
2. Identify the Original Source machine. This is your source machine where the data originally
resided.
3. Select the Restore From machine. This is the target machine where the copy of the data is
stored.
4. Replication Set contains the replication set information stored on the target machine (the
machine in Restore From). If no replication sets are available, the list will be blank. Select the
replication set that corresponds to the data that you need to restore.
5. Select the Restore To machine. This is the machine where the copy of the data will be sent.
6. The Restore To and Restore From paths will automatically be populated when the replication
set is selected. The restore to path is the directory that is the common parent directory for all of
the directories in the replication set. If the replication set crosses volumes, then there will be a
separate path for each volume. The restore from path is the path on the target server where the
replicated files are located.
7. Use the default settings for the remaining restoration options.
8. Click Restore to begin the restoration.
9. After the restoration is complete, disconnect the restoration connection. You can identify a
restoration connection because it is enclosed in parenthesis ( ) and it has _Restore appended to
the end of the replication set name.