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Please tell me about Disaster Recovery Agent
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ARCserveGuru
Technical User
Well, depends Paul. Are you planning on remote Disaster Recovery or Local? I.E, will you be restoring downwed servers all over the network (that you have backed up) or will it just be for one?
ARCserve 2000 is quite good in local disaster recovery as long as it is fully patched, remote though for windows 2000 is a bit tricky, but if you follow the docco to the letter, then it works fine as well.
If your talking about Brightstor Enterprise Backup, then it too is quite good locally, and remote is better than ARCserve on win 2000, but still needs docco to be followed to the letter.
Other than that, I find it a valuable addition to any enterprise and it's only priced per server. So one copy of DRO can protect as many servers as you can backup to that ARCserve server. Of course pricing is different with BEB and DRO is free with the base product.
hope this helps.
guru
ARCserve 2000 is quite good in local disaster recovery as long as it is fully patched, remote though for windows 2000 is a bit tricky, but if you follow the docco to the letter, then it works fine as well.
If your talking about Brightstor Enterprise Backup, then it too is quite good locally, and remote is better than ARCserve on win 2000, but still needs docco to be followed to the letter.
Other than that, I find it a valuable addition to any enterprise and it's only priced per server. So one copy of DRO can protect as many servers as you can backup to that ARCserve server. Of course pricing is different with BEB and DRO is free with the base product.
hope this helps.
guru
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Hi Arcserve Guru,
Yeah Local recovery was my plan, but something you said bothers me. I bought it having been told that I can laod the product on one server and it will cator for all servers. Iwas told by my re-seller that I can load it on all server each as long as they are on the same network. I get the feeling she may have it the wrong way around.I shall have to check on this. But is it quite literally one button restore for a whole server?
Paul
Yeah Local recovery was my plan, but something you said bothers me. I bought it having been told that I can laod the product on one server and it will cator for all servers. Iwas told by my re-seller that I can load it on all server each as long as they are on the same network. I get the feeling she may have it the wrong way around.I shall have to check on this. But is it quite literally one button restore for a whole server?
Paul
monkeylizard
MIS
Sort of...
The way it works is you will boot off the disks (Network Boot Disk first I think) and you will get a dialog window that will walk you through the recovery. It's actually pretty easy, but I do recommend trying it on a TEST server first. Document IN DETAIL each click and disk change that it takes so that you know what to do when you TRULY need it on a production server.
The first time I needed this it took me about 3 tries to get it right since I had not tested it and I lost about an extra hour in that process. Since then, I've used it 3 or 4 times and it's flawless.
***NOTE*** Do not change anything about the hardware configuration on the server from the time it crashes until the time you do the restore. DRO will restore the server EXACTLY the way it was, Registry and drivers included. You WILL have issues if you change any of the hardware with a different type (with very few exceptions like HardDisks)
AS6.6.1 SP2a, WinNT4.0 Sp6a Monkeylizard
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The way it works is you will boot off the disks (Network Boot Disk first I think) and you will get a dialog window that will walk you through the recovery. It's actually pretty easy, but I do recommend trying it on a TEST server first. Document IN DETAIL each click and disk change that it takes so that you know what to do when you TRULY need it on a production server.
The first time I needed this it took me about 3 tries to get it right since I had not tested it and I lost about an extra hour in that process. Since then, I've used it 3 or 4 times and it's flawless.
***NOTE*** Do not change anything about the hardware configuration on the server from the time it crashes until the time you do the restore. DRO will restore the server EXACTLY the way it was, Registry and drivers included. You WILL have issues if you change any of the hardware with a different type (with very few exceptions like HardDisks)
AS6.6.1 SP2a, WinNT4.0 Sp6a Monkeylizard
-Isaiah 35-
I have just bought Arcserve 2000 for my servers. But it doesn't come with any detail documentation about it. I want to know the ins and out of as much detail about it as possible. Where can I find such a book given that the reader knows about navigating and using the basic features of Arcsere 2000?
ARCserveGuru
Technical User
DRO is only required for the ARCserve server. Then anything that server can backup will be protected by DRO (provided you create the disks and you do a full backup of the system. I mean FULL)
guru
guru
Duran:
We have Disaster Recovery with ArcServe 7.0 in a Netware environment. To do a true recovery from scratch, it works on an EXACT configuration, down to the disk drives. If it is not totally identical, there are problems, but you can edit the config file and get by it. Another way around it is to load your OS then recover. Be sure that you test it before you have to use it.
r2nguy
We have Disaster Recovery with ArcServe 7.0 in a Netware environment. To do a true recovery from scratch, it works on an EXACT configuration, down to the disk drives. If it is not totally identical, there are problems, but you can edit the config file and get by it. Another way around it is to load your OS then recover. Be sure that you test it before you have to use it.
r2nguy
Watch out with the NetWare version. I had it wroking on 9 NetWare 4.11 servers, and it worked a treat. Updated to NetWare 4.11 SP8 and it all went Pete Tong (wrong!).
Best thing to do is to have a test lab with a server of the same spec as your production enviromnment and test every time you do a patch upgrade. Don't forget, the test server could also be used in case of a DR situation -----------------------------------------------------
"It's true, its damn true!"
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Best thing to do is to have a test lab with a server of the same spec as your production enviromnment and test every time you do a patch upgrade. Don't forget, the test server could also be used in case of a DR situation -----------------------------------------------------
"It's true, its damn true!"
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hi,
We tested DRO and go I must say it. Remote ones and local ones we tested, in both cases have wit Arcserve 2000 with SP3 into German and afterwards the Added DEVICE patch installed. Afterwards we made a Full Backup. This must be natural succsessful and then goes it also.
Best regards CA-Support
We tested DRO and go I must say it. Remote ones and local ones we tested, in both cases have wit Arcserve 2000 with SP3 into German and afterwards the Added DEVICE patch installed. Afterwards we made a Full Backup. This must be natural succsessful and then goes it also.
Best regards CA-Support
tobrooksie
IS-IT--Management
Hi,
We have been using ARCserve 2000 for about a year now with the initial configuration period taking a couple of months. The base product is great and my only problems have occured when we added some of the agents (ie. Exchange, SQL, and DRO). I have had great success with most of these after some tinkering with the settings. The exception is with the DRO. I have never been able to successfully recover a win 2K machine. CA had me remove the option and all of its files just last week and reinstall them to get them to work and I still have had no luck. I have followed the instructions to the letter and I am now seriously frustrated. I love the base product but just be aware that some of the bell and whistles can kill the whole experience.
We have been using ARCserve 2000 for about a year now with the initial configuration period taking a couple of months. The base product is great and my only problems have occured when we added some of the agents (ie. Exchange, SQL, and DRO). I have had great success with most of these after some tinkering with the settings. The exception is with the DRO. I have never been able to successfully recover a win 2K machine. CA had me remove the option and all of its files just last week and reinstall them to get them to work and I still have had no luck. I have followed the instructions to the letter and I am now seriously frustrated. I love the base product but just be aware that some of the bell and whistles can kill the whole experience.
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