Limitations; Preparation - HP Data Protector A.06.11 Recovery Manual

• If the system which will be backed up is a Windows Vista or Windows Server
2008 system, the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) 1.1 must be installed
on it. Older versions of WAIK are not supported.
• To back up the IIS configuration object residing on a Windows Vista or Windows
Server 2008 system, install the IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility package.

Limitations

• Multiboot systems that do not use Microsoft's boot loader are not supported.
• Internet Information Server (IIS) Database, Terminal Services Database and
Certificate Server Database are not restored automatically during Phase 2. They
can be restored on the target system using the standard Data Protector restore
procedure.
• One Button Disaster Recovery backup session can only be performed for one
selected client or Cell Manager on the same OBDR device at a time. This has to
be done on a single, locally attached OBDR capable device.
• Dynamic disks are not supported (including mirror set upgraded from Windows
NT).
• New disk has to be the same size or bigger than the affected disk. If it is larger
than the original disk, the difference will remain unallocated.
• Only vendor specific partitions of type 0x12 (including EISA) and 0xFE are
supported for OBDR.
• OBDR is supported only on systems where Data Protector is installed on an NTFS
volume.
• On Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 systems, LDM disks are not
supported.
• On Intel Itanium systems, recovery of a boot disk is supported only for local SCSI
disks.

Preparation

See also "Planning" on page 33, for the general preparation procedure for all disaster
recovery methods before completing the steps listed in this section. See also
"Advanced recovery
IMPORTANT:
Prepare for disaster recovery before a disaster occurs.
74 Disaster recovery for Windows
tasks" on page 96.