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Recover WinPE Systems from a Disaster

In this release, CA ARCserve Backup includes support for Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE). WinPE is a minimal Win32 operating system that lets you prepare computers for Windows installations, copy disk images from network shared folders, and initiate Windows setup. CA ARCserve Backup lets you recover Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7 systems running WinPE from a disaster using a Windows PE recovery CD.

Be aware of the following:

• The WinPE Disaster Recovery CD is integrated with the CA ARCserve Backup Installation DVD where the DVD can now perform disaster recovery for both x86 and amd64 (BIOS only) platforms.

  In addition, there are two separated ISOs for EFI/uEFI and IA64 platforms for Disaster Recovery located under the Disaster Recovery directory of the CA ARCserve Backup Installation DVD:

  • WinPE_UEFI.iso
  • WinPE_IA64.iso

  You need to burn them to a CD or DVD first before performing disaster recovery on the EFI/uEFI or IA64 platforms.

• To use WinPE, you must upgrade the Client Agent for Windows and the CA ARCserve Backup server component to this release and have at least 1 GB of physical memory to run WinPE.

WinPE provides utilities for you to use to help fix environment issues:

• Load Driver Utility--This utility is used to load NIC, SCSI, or FC drivers.
• Network Configuration--This utility is used to help you configure your IP address.
• iSCSI Configuration--This utility is used to help you configure iSCSI connections.
• Activity Log--This utility is used to view the disaster recovery activity log.
• Troubleshooting--This utility is used to investigate disaster recovery issues.
• Run--This utility is used to run other applications in the disaster recovery environment.