16 Restore Processes With Replication; Recovering A Source Appliance (Virtual Tape Devices) - HP StoreOnce B6000 Series User Manual

16 Restore processes with replication

This section covers the following topics:
Recovering a source appliance, VTL devices
Recovering a source appliance, NAS shares

Recovering a Source Appliance (Virtual Tape devices)

IMPORTANT:
original appliance, the source to target mapping will still exist on the repaired StoreOnce Backup
System. You MUST break this mapping BEFORE carrying out recovery. If you do not, the now blank
Source Library (on the replacement disks) will overwrite the data on the Target Library. You will
effectively lose backup data on both Source and Target Libraries.
The remote site has lost both the host servers and the StoreOnce system. New hardware has been
purchased and installed and the administrator now wants to recover data to the StoreOnce Backup
System and then restore to the host server. Before the failure a mapping existed between a Source
Library on the remote site StoreOnce Backup System and a Target Library on the Data Center
StoreOnce Backup System. After the failure the Source Library is missing; the mapping may or
may not still exist.
Figure 3 Recovery using reverse replication
1. Create a new Non-Replicating Library on the Source Appliance (either by running the Installation
wizard or by using the Devices page).
2. Go to the Replication - Virtual Tape Mappings page and select the new non-replicating library.
If you replace the disks in the source StoreOnce Backup System and keep the
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