disaster recovery 1

[razkarmi]

We have a MKicrosoft Share Point server which is going to hold all of the companie's documentation in the near future.
For this reason we need to make sure that we can perform a full disaster recovery on that server.
to perform such a thing, the restore needs to be to the original location.
As we cannot take the production server down, I was wandering what is the best way of doing it?
we are using Legato NetWorker 6.1.1 for Solaris.
Can we add another leg to the backup server that will connect to the lab? Can we install the NT version on the server in the lab?
Please let me know what you think.

 

[rgzimmer]

Simplest, least intrusive way is to do a recovery of the backup server in the lab, provided you have a standalone tape drive to attach and do the recovery.

Once you recover the backup server, you can recover the other server completely off-line.

 

[razkarmi]

what i need to do is a disaster recovery for the Share Point server onto a different server not the backup server.
if i dont have another library in hte lab, what is the best way?

 

[jkalbus]

Usually there is no difference between a directed recovery to another computer or to the original one - except you have to set the access rights accordingly.

Think about the disaster recovery in a case where the original machine is completely defunct and you have to take another machine to recover to.

So there is no reason to take one spare machine - maybe one for testing or not yet in production - do a disaster recovery on that machine. Then point a Client to that machine instead to your usual Share Point Server and try if it works...

For disaster recovery there currently does not exist any tool for 2000 or XP - maybe in the next weeks there will be disaster recovery for 2000 available from Legato.

This creates a minimum system CD to start a bare system and then start the recovery from that minimum system. This works for NT - but who still uses NT nowadays???

Hope I have helped a little

Johanes

 

[eskolnik]

How can you perform a complete Window's 2000 machine without recovery manager?

I would think you could re-install the OS, configure the NIC, Install the Networker client and do a full restore.

But then what? My restore is hanging up?

 

[TDun]

A full restore would include the registry. As such, you would need the hardware to be pretty much the same.
Exclude anything excpet the drives and see if that works.
If so, then you will need to have close to the same hardware to recover the system state.
I've seen this but only with multi-cpu recover onto single-cpu.