Disaster Recovery - Prerequisites for Windows Systems

To recover from a disaster, you need all the items on the following checklist:

• A set of Disaster Recovery boot disks (created on any Windows server) or the bootable CD and machine-specific disk.
• A Windows CD that matches the version used to create the boot disks.
• A backup device connected to the server (can be a remote Arcserve Backup server) for Windows only with backup media or, for Windows, an MTF tape containing the data you want to restore in the drive. The media must contain at least one full backup session.

Note: Special partitions such as EISA or ISA, which can be seen from fdisk or windisk.exe, should be configured properly before the DR process, using utilities provided by the vendor. DR will not back up and recover these partitions.

Important! If you created a set of boot disks for a specific machine, upon recovery, DR automatically partitions your hard disk into the original configuration. This set of disks can only be used to perform a disaster recovery on this machine. If a local media drive is detected, a local recovery will be performed.

More information:

Disaster Recovery - Overview

Disaster Recovery - Preparation