Recovering From A Disaster; Disaster Recovery From Cd Or Dvd - HP BB118BV - StorageWorks Data Protector Express Package User Manual

Recovering From a Disaster

If disaster strikes and you are unable to boot your system using your normal boot procedure, use one of
the following procedures to recover your system.
There are several phases to disaster recovery and your system will be rebooted at various points in the
process. At all times, information is displayed to advise you of what is happening. The machine may
reboot on its own several times during the course of the recovery. This is normal behavior required by the
operating system to complete certain recovery steps. Normally, you are not required to take any action
other than inserting media if prompted to do so.
Do not restore incremental or differential backup media until after you complete disaster recovery.
1. If you are using a bootable CD or DVD:
a. Insert the disaster recovery CD or DVD into your computer.
b. Power on your computer.
c. Perform any special steps for booting your computer from CD or DVD (refer to your system
d. The system boots from the CD or DVD.
2. Insert the first disaster recovery media.
For disaster recovery, use only full backup media that were created with the Overwrite all media
option. After disaster recovery is complete and your system has restarted, use the standard Data Protector
Express options to restore any incremental or differential media to your system. The standard Data
Protector Express restore procedure optimizes restoration and restores incremental and differential media
faster than the disaster recovery process.
3. When the Disaster Recovery (Phase 2) screen appears, select one of the following options:
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