Disaster Recovery Procedural Overview
Chapter 8 Disaster Recovery
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Disaster Recovery Procedural Overview
The procedure described in this section for responding to a catastrophic event is
general in nature and may result in the loss of data. Should such an event actually
occur, the exact procedure to follow will vary according to environmental
conditions. Overland Storage strongly recommends that you contact a technical
service representative before proceeding.
This section describes a worst-case scenario:
• The operating system has failed, (e.g., due to a malicious attack to the root file
system), and you cannot access the server.
• The data has been corrupted and must be restored from tape.
• Technical support has deemed your server unsalvagable and provided you with
a new, unconfigured server.
Restoring Previous Server Settings to a New Server
After Technical Support has supplied you with a new server, you can restore the
settings from the previous server to the new server. Any third-party license keys
you have not purchased through Overland Storage will be lost. If you have installed
data replication or management utilities such as Snap EDR, you will need to re-
install and/or relicense them for use with the new server.
Note
If you are restoring EDR Management Console settings, you must recreate the
RAID and volume configuration that matches the DRI settings, then install and
enable the EDR Management Console. As an alternative, you can first restore just
the system settings, install EDR, and then restore just the EDR settings.
You will also need to reschedule snapshots as well reconfigure CA Antivirus.
Note
If you are restoring the DRImage to the same server, all your license keys
should be intact. You will still need to reschedule your snapshots and CA Antivirus.
1
When you connect to the new server, navigate to
Maintenance > Disaster
Recovery
, select
Recover System Setting
s
and click
OK
.
2
Click the
Browse
button and navigate to the Snap DRImage you made of the
previous server, then click
OK
.
3
The server will reboot and the settings will be restored. To view the log, click the
date link on the Disaster Recovery screen after the server has rebooted.
4
After restoring your server settings, rejoin the server to the Windows domain if
necessary.
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