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Recover Arcserve D2D Data from Raw Sessions

Arcserve Backup lets you back up Arcserve D2D recovery points and store the data on Arcserve Backup media. The Arcserve D2D Recovery Points are stored on Arcserve Backup media as raw sessions.

Arcserve Backup lets you recover Arcserve D2D data at file, folder, and application level granularity with respect to Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange Server applications. However, if you want to recover individual email messages from the mailbox from Exchange GRT enabled backups, recover the raw sessions to the Arcserve D2D server, and then use Arcserve D2D to recover the individual email messages from the Exchange GRT sessions from the Arcserve D2D server. To recover individual email messages, open the Arcserve D2D home page and browse the recovered raw session to locate the objects that you want to recover.

The raw sessions can also be used to perform bare metal recovery (BMR) of Arcserve D2D servers. Using the raw sessions, the BMR process is a two-phased approach:

1. Recover the raw session to a shared folder, network file share, or a device that the failed server can access while completing the BMR process.
2. Boot the server that you want to recover using the Arcserve D2D BMR media and then browse to the location where you recovered the raw session. Then follow the on-screen steps to complete the BMR process.

   Note: For information about recovering files and folders and performing BMR on Arcserve D2D servers, see the Arcserve D2D documentation.

Be aware of the following:

• Arcserve Backup recovers raw sessions using the same directory structure as the Arcserve D2D backup destination.

  Example: E:\restore is the alternative location.

  • Arcserve Backup recovers raw sessions using the following pattern:

    E:\restore\VSTORE\<original session number>\
    

  • Arcserve Backup recovers the catalog files for raw sessions using the following pattern:

    E:\restore\CATALOG\<original session number>\
    

• Arcserve Backup lets you restore raw sessions only to alternative locations; not to original locations.

The steps listed below describe how to perform the following recoveries:

• Recover Arcserve D2D from raw sessions.
• Recover Arcserve D2D virtual machines that were backed up via Arcserve D2D Central Host-Based VM Backup proxy servers from raw sessions.

Note: The following steps describe how to submit restore jobs using the Restore by Session method. The process of restoring Arcserve D2D and Arcserve D2D virtual machines using the Restore by Tree method is identical to that of all other types of data. For more information about the Restore by Tree method, see "Restoring Data."

Follow these steps:

1. Open the Arcserve Backup Manager Console.

   From the Quick Start menu, click Restore.

   The Restore Manager window opens.

2. From the drop-down list, click Restore by Session.

   The sessions appear in the Session tree.

3. Locate the Arcserve D2D server containing the raw session that you want to recover.

   

   Click the check box next to the raw session.

   Click the Destination tab.

   The Destination options appear.

4. On the Destination tab, clear the check box next to Restore files to their original location(s), and specify the alternative location where you want to recover the data.

   Click the Schedule tab.

   The Schedule options appear.

5. Specify the Schedule options that you require for the job.
6. Click Options on the toolbar to specify the global options that you require for the job.

   Note: For more information, see Global Restore Options.

7. Click Submit on the toolbar to submit the job.

   The Restore Media dialog opens to display a list of the media that is required to perform the operation.

8. If the required media resides on multiple Arcserve Backup servers, click the drop-down list and specify the backup server that you want to execute the job and then click OK.

   The Session User Name and Password dialog opens.

9. On the Session User Name and Password dialog, edit or confirm the user name and password that is required to access the sessions and click OK.

   The Submit Job dialog opens.

10. Complete the required fields on the Submit Job dialog and click OK.

    The job is submitted.

    After the restore job completes, use the sessions that you restored to an alternative location to recover the Arcserve D2D data. For information about how to recover individual Arcserve D2D files and folders, and how to perform BMR operations on Arcserve D2D servers, see the Arcserve D2D documentation.

    Note: For information about recovering files and folders and performing BMR on Arcserve D2D servers, see the Arcserve D2D documentation.