HP One-Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR) Solution for ProLiant Servers Reference Guide

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Performing an OBDR restore
Loading the OBDR tape
IMPORTANT: When performing an OBDR restore on a ProLiant Gen8 server, the restore hard drive must have a greater capacity
than the original hard drive.
Local mode
1. Load the OBDR tape media into the HP tape drive.
2. Place the HP tape drive into OBDR mode and power cycle the tape drive. If you are doing this on a local tape drive, you may use one of
the following methods:
Hold the eject button and power cycle the ProLiant server if the tape device is internally connected
Hold the eject button and power cycle the tape device if it is externally connected to your ProLiant server
Remote mode
IMPORTANT: To perform this function remotely requires the HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLo) or Remote Insight Lights Out
Edition (RILOE) board
1. Insert the OBDR tape media into the HP tape drive at the remote location.
2. Power cycle the server and press the <F8> function key at POST (see the F8 descriptions below for more details).
Supported operating systems
The tape device will then bootup in OBDR mode and the restore process will be started. The restore processes for the following operating
environments are described separately below:
Local recovery of Windows 2008 master server
Local recovery of Windows 2003 master server
Network recovery of Windows 2008 client
Linux recovery