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Disaster Recovery
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As Disater recovery it is a very good option. I have it running on my network and it was the only program that was able to make a complete recovery of a raid 5 system. I have everything tested and with 2 hours I got a full server up and running.
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We have the IDR with Backup Exec 8.0. on Windows NT 4.0 .
We have tried to use it with DELL 6400 and DELL 2450 where both of these have RAID arrays, multiple striped and mirrored disks, etc. We have been doing some disaster recovery tests and contrary to our expectations,
the IDR function did not pick up the RAID drivers correctly so that during the restore procedure, the IDR could not see the disk drives. (ie. nothing to restore to) This was remedied by hitting F6 at the right time and selecting the 'S' option at the ntsetup screen, then providing the correct RAID card drivers from diskette. After that, the IDR worked fine and the whole server was restored. We then had an issue that not everything functioned perfectly after the server was restored, but my present belief is that the B.E. restored correctly WHAT WAS ON THE TAPE but we needed to upgrade to the Backup Exec Open File option to capture a proper image of some open files. I have done this now, and will be doing some more testing soon.
Maybe we should have called Veritas support just to be sure we did nothing wrong, but I used the IDR Wizard and did it all correctly.
Really, the IDR is not bad, but, at least the way we used it, you must test it with your hardware to be sure it actually does work the way the book says it should. I like it because it presents me with a quick restore solution of EVERYTHING plus 120 GB of data on tapes that I can easily send offsite.
We have tried to use it with DELL 6400 and DELL 2450 where both of these have RAID arrays, multiple striped and mirrored disks, etc. We have been doing some disaster recovery tests and contrary to our expectations,
the IDR function did not pick up the RAID drivers correctly so that during the restore procedure, the IDR could not see the disk drives. (ie. nothing to restore to) This was remedied by hitting F6 at the right time and selecting the 'S' option at the ntsetup screen, then providing the correct RAID card drivers from diskette. After that, the IDR worked fine and the whole server was restored. We then had an issue that not everything functioned perfectly after the server was restored, but my present belief is that the B.E. restored correctly WHAT WAS ON THE TAPE but we needed to upgrade to the Backup Exec Open File option to capture a proper image of some open files. I have done this now, and will be doing some more testing soon.
Maybe we should have called Veritas support just to be sure we did nothing wrong, but I used the IDR Wizard and did it all correctly.
Really, the IDR is not bad, but, at least the way we used it, you must test it with your hardware to be sure it actually does work the way the book says it should. I like it because it presents me with a quick restore solution of EVERYTHING plus 120 GB of data on tapes that I can easily send offsite.
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Hi, I also tried it on several compaq raid servers, it works great! But you have to check out if the IDR is working with your tape drive. When you make the IDR floppys you can tell BE to use the speciale drivers instead of the standaard Windows drivers (see last message) then you don't have to put in speciaal driver floppys during the restore procedure. Greeting, Sysbeh
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