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Disaster Recovery
Enhanced Automated Disaster Recovery of a Windows System
Chapter 10470
Recovery
You need the following to successfully perform a disaster recovery on the
crashed system:
• A new hard disk to replace your crashed disk.
• A successful full client backup of the client that you want to recover.
• The Data Protector disaster recovery CD.
EADR of a
Windows Client
The following is a step-by-step procedure for performing EADR of a
Windows system:
1. Boot from the disaster recovery CD of the original system.
2. Press
F12 when the following message is displayed: To start
recovery of the machine <HOSTNAME> press F12.
3. Select the scope of recovery and press
Enter. There are 5 different
scopes of recovery:
• No recovery: Disaster recovery is not performed and the
computer is rebooted.
• Default Recovery: Critical volumes are recovered. All other
disks are not partitioned and formatted and are ready for Phase 3.
• Minimal Recovery: Only system and boot disks are recovered
(available for EADR and OBDR only).
• Full Recovery: (For future releases).
• Full with Shared Volumes: Available for MSCS only. This
option should be used if all nodes in the MSCS have crashed and
you are performing Enhanced Automated Disaster Recovery of the
first node. It will recover all volumes in the Restore Set including
cluster shared volumes that were locked by the backed-up node at
backup time.
If at least one node is up and the MSCS service is running, than
shared volumes will not be restored because the node keeps them
locked. In this case, you should use Default Recovery.
4. After you have selected the scope of the recovery, Data Protector
starts setting up the DR OS directly to the hard disk. You can monitor
the progress and, when the DR OS is set up, the system reboots.
5. Wait for 10 seconds when prompted To start recovery of the