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Disaster Recovery Archive Considerations

Because catastrophes will, by definition, strike your infrastructure as well as your backup media, you should assume that you will have to rebuild systems completely before you can start the actual data recovery. For this reason, you should always maintain the following off site:

• Media elements that contain bootable operating systems for the CA ARCserve Backup servers.
• A current, complete backup of the file systems, databases, and mail servers supported by CA ARCserve Backup.

You may want to include CA ARCserve Backup distribution media and a text file that lists your hardware configuration parameters.