Disaster Recovery

[technical1]

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone can help.
Im running ARCserve Release 11 with 'disaster recovery option',

I have created:
1. Full backups of client servers including system state.
2. Created a "CA Bootable CD Image", using Windows 2000.
3. Created a "Machine Specific Recovery Disk" for each client server, Windows 2000/2003.

My question is do i only need the above items to perform a complete Disaster recovery?

And also what would the process be?

Regards,
Vinay

 

[MaxTheCat]

What you have is all you need to do a disaster recovery, just boot from the CD and follow the prompts.

The only problem I found was that disaster recovery only works with the equipment you backed up from, in other words if you replace hardware you can't use CA's disaster recovery.

Restoring from a crashed OS to the same HW works like a charm, we have actually resotred to new equipment, but just got lucky because the drives and server were purchased at the same time the orginal server was purchased and the registry couldn't tell the difference.

We have been bitten by this bug also, we tried to restore to 'similar' equipment (same type of hardware but didn't have the same internal id's CA was looking for), everything worked fine until the final reboot, then all we got was the Blue Stop Screen of Death, at that point I got ahold of CA tech support and they informed me that what the slaesman told me and how the product really works, won't work the way I want it to, oh well, Live get burned and Learn.

Hope this ramble helps you out a bit. :