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Preparing for Disaster Recovery
Prepare for DR by saving restore points, predening DR settings, and testing those settings.
Perform these tasks to implement a DR plan:
• Saving and Validating Restore Points
• Predening Disaster Recovery Settings for Replications
• Test Activating Disaster Recovery
Saving and Validating Restore Points
A restore point includes information about a replication or Live Volume, including the source and destination volumes, source and
destination
Storage Centers, and the QoS denitions used. If a Storage Center goes down, this information becomes the basis for
restoring the replication or Live Volume.
• A restore point for a Live Volume that manages a replication does not contain information about the managed replication.
– If DR is activated for the Live Volume using the Preserve Live Volume option, the managed replication continues to operate
and follows the DR-activated volume.
– If DR is activated for the Live Volume without using the Preserve Live Volume option, the managed replication is removed
and must be recreated manually.
• A restore point for a replication that is managed by a Live Volume does not contain information about the Live Volume. If DR is
activated for the managed replication, the Live Volume must be recreated manually.
Save Replication Restore Points for One or More Storage Centers
Save replication restore points after creating replications or Live Volumes. Storage Manager automatically saves restore points for
replications and Live Volumes.
1. Click the Replications & Live Volumes view.
2. In the Actions pane, click Save Restore Points. The Save Restore Points dialog box appears.
3. Select the check boxes for Storage Centers for which you want to save restore points, then click OK.
Set a Schedule for Automatically Saving and Validating Restore Points
Set a schedule for automatically saving and validating restore points to make sure that good restore points are always available to
perform DR.
1. In the top pane of the Dell Storage Manager Client, click Edit Data Collector Settings. The Edit Data Collector Settings dialog
box opens.
2. Click the Schedules tab.
3. Select the Automatically save and validate restore points check box.
4. From the Frequency drop-down menu, select how often you want restore points to be automatically saved and validated.
5. (Conditional) If you selected Daily in the previous step, select the time of day to save and validate restore points from the Time
drop-down menu.
6. Click OK.
Validate Replication Restore Points
Validate replication restore points before testing or activating DR to make sure they can be used for DR.
1. Click the Replications & Live Volumes view.
2. In the Actions pane, click Validate Restore Points. Storage Manager reviews all saved replications and makes sure that they are
still running and displays the results on the Restore Points tab. The Status column displays the results of the validation
operation. Possible status values are:
Storage Center DR Preparation and Activation
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