Disater Recovery Option

[DebiJo]

Running Arcserve 2000 Advanced

I am looking for some information on the Disaster Recovery option. I read that it saves time in a recovery by making a boot disk to use with the OS load.

I am wondering, does it set the SID and Computer name? Has anyone used this to successfully recreate a system?

Thanks in advance,
Debi

 

[BarbieGirl]

Debi,

I just found your thread and have the same question. I have being performing the backups for the last 6 months and just found that we have a license for the disaster recovery option. I have heard it can take hours (up to 14 hours) to actually recover a server, but this is not confirmed. Does anybody find it useful?

My regular backups are good, and I can rebuild a server a lot quicker than 14 hours.

Any comments would be appreciated.

 

[ARCserveGuru]

What?? 14 hours to recover a server with the disaster recovery server? Your joking right?

I do regularly DR testing in my labs just in case and find a DR from a swapped hardisk will take at most an hour, even less sometimes.

It does keep server specific information by the way so in order to use it as a distribution tool for images, I wouldn't, just ghost.

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[BarbieGirl]

Yup, that is what I was told before I took over the backups. I think it would be a great tool if it does take only 1 hour, Guru. I am in the process of setting up the DR schedule, so I will test and see just how long it takes.

Can you point me in the direction of a good step by step article to perform the DR using the CD method?

 

[ARCserveGuru]

Hmmmm, step by step. I haven't found any out there that are worthy of mention. I think the only thing I would trust is something I created in house through my DR testing, oh and the DR in an hour or so depends on the amount of data.

Make your own documentation, it's always better that way, you just have to find the time.

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[ARCserveGuru]

One more thing, if your using a little dds 4/8 gig then the restore from the tapes is going to be so slow that DR might take longer than an hour, even more than a day. It all depends on your hardware and how long it takes to push the data through.

I am on SDLT

G