Recovery Using An Edited Srd File - HP Data Protector A.06.11 Recovery Manual

Any modification to this file are at your own risk and as such not supported by
Hewlett-Packard.
WARNING!
It is required to create and execute a test plan to be sure the recovery will work after you
have edited the kb.cfg file.

Recovery using an edited SRD file

Information about backup devices or media stored in the SRD file may be out of date
at the time you are performing disaster recovery. This is not a problem if you are
performing an online recovery, because the required information is stored in the IDB
on the Cell Manager. But if you are performing an offline recovery, the information
stored in the IDB is not accessible.
For example, a disaster struck not only the Cell Manager, but also a backup device
connected to it. If you replace the backup device with a different backup device after
the disaster, the information on backup devices stored in the updated SRD file
(recovery.srd) will be wrong and the recovery will fail. In this case, edit the
updated SRD file before performing Phase 2 of disaster recovery to update the wrong
information and thus enable a successful recovery.
To edit the SRD file, open it in a text editor and update the information that has
changed.
TIP:
You can display the device configuration information using the devbra -dev command.
For example, if the client name of the system you are trying to recover has changed,
replace the value of the -hostoption. You can also edit the information about the:
• Cell Manager client name (-cm).
• Media Agent client (-mahost).
• Logical device or drive (library) name (-dev).
• Device type (-devtype).
Refer to the sanconf man page or HP Data Protector command line interface
reference for possible -devtype option values.
• Device SCSI address (-devaddr).
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