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

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Troubleshooting disaster recovery

When attempting to recover your system, the following are common errors that occur:
Get or set server failure
disk drives and volumes on the target system. Make sure that all disks are powered on and ready and
that any new disks are the same size or larger than the old disks. Make sure that the geometries of any
new disks are also the same size or larger. Make sure you have enabled logical block addressing in
your BIOS configuration and that any SCSI controllers are configured the same as when you created the
recovery tape. If you changed SCSI adapters, Data Protector Express may not be able to access any
peripherals from the new adapter unless it uses the same driver as the old adapter.
Dynamic disk failure
RAIDs and mirrors, you may receive a dynamic disk failure message. The layout is usually recovered
successfully. You simply have to re-activate the mirror set.
Unable to boot from tape
boot track. Try another tape or tape drive, if available.

Limitations

DR does not currently support split spanning of objects. Any objects that are split spanned on the backup
media will not be restorable during the DR process but must be restored after the DR process has
completed. If the split objects are critical to the functioning of the system, your system may not function
after the recovery process. Since there is not an easy way to know which objects are split across media, it
is best to not use the default, restarts spanning mode, when creating a DR backup.
Some data requires that a system service be running to successfully recover it. Those objects are skipped
during the DR restore process and must be restored in a separate restore job once disaster recovery is
complete.
DR recovers: directories, files, Windows Registry files, volume quotas, windows event log, the Data
Protector Express catalog, linux character and block special devices, linux FIFOs, symbolic links, linux
sockets, and mount points. All other objects must be restored separately.
b. Go to the system properties of this machine (right click on "Computer" and go to
properties or open the System Control panel)
c. Click on "Computer Name" and click on "Change...".
d. Change "Member of" from "Workgroup" to "Domain".
e. Restart your computer.
This message appears when Data Protector Express cannot reconfigure the
In some dynamic disk configurations under Windows /XP/Server , including
This message appears if the tape does not contain a valid disaster recovery
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