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How to Prepare DR Emergency Data

You must follow the given procedure each time you perform a disaster recovery:

To prepare DR Emergency data

1. Copy DR emergency data to OS image directory: Locate the DR directory in the home directory of the Arcserve Backup Server and copy the data to the following location on the RIS server:

   Drive:\RemoteInstall\Setup\Language\Images\ImageName
   

   Note: If you have multiple Operating System images to be supported in your environment, you must copy the DR directory to each OS image directory. For example, if you have machines with Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003 Standard editions installed, you should create two images on your RIS server, and copy the DR directory to both the image directories.

2. Configure ASR.SIF: Locate ASR.SIF in the DR\MachineName directory in the Arcserve Backup server home directory.
   1. Copy the ASR.SIF file from the DR directory to the following location on the RIS server and rename it to UUID.SIF :

      Drive:\RemoteInstall\ASRFiles. 
      

      Note: You must remove all the hyphens in the UUID string, if there are any.

      For example, if you get the following UUID from some source (utility, BIOS): D4E493CA-BB82-4561-8D76-CFFE3D4885BA after you remove all the hyphens file name appears as D4E493CABB8245618D76CFFE3D4885BA.SIF.

   2. Open the file UUID.SIF, and make the modifications:

      For 32-bit Windows:

      [COMMANDS]
      

      1=1,3000,0,"%SystemRoot%\system32\asr_fmt.exe","/restore"
      

      2=1,4990,1,"%SystemRoot%\system32\asr_pfu.exe","/restore"
      

      3=1,2000,1,"%SystemRoot%\system32\asr_ldm.exe","/restore"
      

      4=1,4000,1,"%systemdrive%\$win_nt$.~ls\DR_ASR.BAT","BKServerName\MachineName >%systemdrive%dr_asr.log"
      

      5=1,4000,1,"%SystemRoot%\system32\drlaunch.exe",""
      

      For Windows 2003 x64:

      1=1,3000,0,"%SystemRoot%\system32\asr_fmt.exe","/restore"
      

      2=1,4990,1,"%SystemRoot%\system32\asr_pfu.exe","/restore"
      

      3=1,2000,1,"%SystemRoot%\system32\asr_ldm.exe","/restore"
      

      4=1,4000,1,"%systemdrive%\$win_nt$.~ls\DR_ASR.BAT","BKServerName\MachineName W2K3 X64>%systemdrive%\dr_asr.log"
      

      5=1,4000,1,"%SystemRoot%\syswow64\drlaunch.exe",""
      

      For Windows XP x64:

      1=1,3000,0,"%SystemRoot%\system32\asr_fmt.exe","/restore"
      

      2=1,4990,1,"%SystemRoot%\system32\asr_pfu.exe","/restore"
      

      3=1,2000,1,"%SystemRoot%\system32\asr_ldm.exe","/restore"
      

      4=1,4000,1,"%systemdrive%\$win_nt$.~ls\DR_ASR.BAT","BKServerName\MachineName WXP X64>%systemdrive%\dr_asr.log"
      

      5=1,4000,1,"%SystemRoot%\syswow64\drlaunch.exe",""
      

      BKServerName refers to the one of the directory under DR directory, it means a backup server; MachineName refers to one of the directory name under BKServerName directory.

      Note: You must modify this file each time you perform Disaster Recovery. This file records disk and volume settings of the client machine and helps ensure it matches with the latest configuration of the client machine you are recovering.

3. Configure ASRPNP.SIF: Locate this file in the DR\MachineName directory in the Arcserve Backup Server home directory and copy it to the following location on the RIS Server and rename it to UUID.SIF:

   Drive:\RemoteInstall\ASRPNPFiles
   

4. Configure scan session signature file: The drscans file invokes DRScansession utility for retrieving DR session from tape.

   While using RIS floppy-less Disaster Recovery, set the value FDUPDATE to FALSE, as you are not using the floppy.