DR option generating files too big for DR boot disk

[ergolargo]

Hi folks

Has anybody experienced this issue before? I'm running ArcServe 11.5 with the Disaster Recovery option, on Windows 2003 Server. As you may recall, you can use the Disaster Recovery option to generate recovery data to go onto a boot floppy, which can then be used to customize the Windows 2003 ASR process - it retrieves an Arcserve backup during system recovery. When I use the Create Boot Kit wizard option to create a 'machine specific' floppy disk, it works OK for most of my servers, its just that when I try it for the backup server itself, the DR files are too big to go onto a floppy disk! Seems a bit silly to me! Sure enough, when I check, the DR process has generated over 2MB of data, so it IS too big to go on a floppy!

Does anybody know why this could be happening, and whether it may not be a coincidence that its happening for the backup server but not the other servers?!

Any advise gratefully received!

Thanks

Paul
Hull
UK

 

[ergolargo]

PS Surely Arcserve doesn't require an ED floppy drive!?

PPS Is there any other way of setting up a backup of the Arcserve Backup server that will allow me to do a 'bare metal' restore? If so, maybe I can try that and side step this problem. It's very annoying though, you would think that disaster recovery would be expected to work for the server that is actually running ArcServe!

 

[ergolargo]

PPPS Or is it impossible to do a bare metal restore of the server that is actually running ArcServe using ArcServe itself. All the CA documentation seems to skirt around this issue, which I'm beginning to think is rather suspicious ... !

 

[davidmichel]

perhaps the CA tech doc TEC446750 which details out how to do a DR without a floppy will help.

Maybe you do make a boot CD instead.

 

[ergolargo]

Thanks but that pdf is about encryption on version 12, so not really relevant ...

 

[davidmichel]

sorry the correct # is TEC421867.

but if you were there already to see it was the wrong one why didn't you just look through the list of tech docs.