10 Disaster Recovery; Licensing - HP BB118BV - StorageWorks Data Protector Express Package User's Manual & Technical Reference

10 Disaster Recovery

In this chapter

• Licensing

• Bootable devices
• Important guidelines
• Create the Disaster Recovery Backup
• Testing Disaster Recovery Media
• Recovering From a Disaster
• Disaster Recovery with Libraries
• Recover Windows Active Directory (Windows only)
• Limitations
Bare Metal Disaster Recovery (DR) is a Data Protector Express agent that performs disaster recovery
operations as automatically as possible during initial preparation and recovery. It allows you to create
bootable media which you use to recover your system configuration, software and data following a
system or disk failure.
If you create a full backup to any removable device that supports bootable media, that media will
be bootable and can be used for bare-metal recovery. Devices that support bootable media include
removable cartridge disk drives, any external disk drive connected via USB or Firewire, and any tape
drive that supports One-Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR). If you use other backup devices, you must
create bootable media as a separate step after running your backup job.
Disaster Recovery (DR) operates without the benefit of the Data Protector Express catalog. When it
restores data it restores the entire contents of each media provided. The media can be supplied in any
order but if there are incremental or differential backups on the media set along with the full backup,
objects will be restored in the order they are found on media and the results may not contain the most
current versions of the backed-up data.
NOTE:
You will only be able to perform bare-metal recovery to the same or an nearly-identical computer.
Licensing
Data Protector Express requires a separate Disaster Recovery license for each machine that will use this
feature. This license enables you to create bootable media. If the Data Protector Express was supplied
with a hardware device, it may have included a Disaster Recovery license.
If you upgrade Data Protector Express software to a new version, the Disaster Recovery option is retained
for the local machine.
Data Protector Express does not support remote disaster recovery. It only saves recovery information for
the local system.
For example, if the backup device is connected to Machine1 and you make a remote backup of Machine2,
the media will contain disaster recovery boot information for Machine1, not Machine2. You can use the
media to boot Machine1, you cannot use it to boot Machine2.
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