How do you simulate disaster recovery? (IDR) 1

[bnordman]

I am attempting to simulate a disaster recovery using BE10.1 and IDR.

I have a machine named "sharepoint" that is a prod machine on the network and I am trying to do an IDR of this machine to a test box.

The problem I am running into is getting the error "unable to establish connection with the media server" during the IDR process. I am told the test server cannot be on the same domain as the prod server as when it comes up it will have a duplicate name.

My question is: how do I simulate a restore of a prod machine to a test server while the prod server is still online? AND how am I still able to connect to the media server that is on the same domain as the prod server?

Veritas came back to me with: "You will have to re-create the IDR CD again for this server in the test domain."

I do have a test domain I could use - but since the prod server is in the CORP domain, the IDR tries to add the test server to the CORP domain as well, correct?

I know I have options like: take the prod server offline at night to do the test restore. Or maybe I could hook the test server and the media server to a hub?

If anyone has any ideas, let me know! Thanks!

 

[LawnBoy]

Or maybe I could hook the test server and the media server to a hub?

That's what I do.
If you run into DNS problems just put these two servers in the hosts file on both machines.

 

[bnordman]

I asked Veritas this and they never said I could do it that way and said I had to create a test environment, creating a test domain with the same name as the production domain and so on...

I'll try this and we'll see if it works!

Thanks.

 

[LawnBoy]

One caveat: I don't run any sort of Microsoft domain structure. We're a Netware shop and don't have the added complications MS Domains present.