HP StorageWorks Ultrium Full-Height SCSI Tape Drives User Guide (EH853-90905, August 2007)

10 Using HP OBDR
Compatibility
HP O n e-Button Disaster Recovery is a standard feature on all HP StorageWorks Ultrium tape drives.
However,itcanonlybeusedwithspecificconfigurations and will only recover the server to which
the tape drive is directly connected.
To check whether your system (hardware, operating system and backup software) is OBDR-compatible,
please refer to our World Wide Web site h
ttp://www.hp.com/go/connect.
For more specific information concerning the benefits of OBD R and the latest new features please refer to
our World Wide Web site h
ttp://www.hp.com/go/obdr.
If your system does not support HP One-Button Disaster Recovery, you can still use your tape drive
normally to back up and restore data. However, you must remember to create a separate set of
emergency recovery disks for your operating system whenever yo u change your system c onfiguration.
What does HP OBDR do?
Using just the tape drive and the most recent backup cartridge HP OBDR allows you to recover from
the following types of system disaster:
• Hard disk f
ailures,aslongasthereplacementharddiskisthesamesizeorlargerthantheoriginal
and uses t
he same inter face (for example, replace a SCSI hard disk with another SCSI disk)
• Hardware failures where the server is replaced by an identical component
• File corruption because of an operating system error
• File corr
uption because of an application software error
• Viruses that prevent you from booting your system correctly
• User errors that stop you from booting your system correctly
When you run HP One-Button Disaster Recovery, your tape drive goes through the following sequence:
1. It goes i
nto a special disaster recovery mode that enables it to restore your operating system and
reboot
. It acts like a bootable CD-ROM. (Your system’s ability to boot from CD-ROM is normally
enabled by default. If you have changed this setting, you will need to enable it ag ain. Refer to
your system BIOS manual for further details.)
2. It returns to normal tape drive mode and restores the data.
Remote disaster recovery (ProLiant servers only)
The HP Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition (RILOE) on ProLiant ser vers gives the IT Administrator the ability
to comp letely recover a failed server at a remote location without p hysically traveling to where the
server resides. The on-site non-technical person need only insert the bootable cartridge into the tape
drive when asked to do so by the administrator.
Refer to the HP OBDR web site at h
ttp://www.hp.com/go/obdr for more information about using
this feature and compatibility.
Testing for compatibility
We recommend that you perform a full backup and test disaster recovery as soon as possible after
ins
tallation—if possible, onto a blank hard disk. If you do not have a blank hard disk a nd do not
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