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Recover from Disaster

To recover from a disaster, perform the following procedure. The first two steps form the Dell Server Assistant version 7.5 Bootable CD Setup process, and the remaining steps form the Windows XP ASR boot process:

To recover from a disaster

1. Boot the client computer (Dell PowerEdge 1600SC) using the Dell Server Assistant version 7.5 Bootable CD.

   Note: Follow the Dell guidelines to recreate the hardware RAID configuration.

2. Boot the client computer using the Windows XP distribution CD and follow the on-screen ASR instructions. For more information on Disaster Recovery, see section "Disaster Recovery Methods on Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP".
3. Press F6 to enable the addition of the SCSI or RAID drivers required, using the device driver floppy disks.
4. Press F2 to begin the Windows ASR process.

   You will be prompted to insert Windows ASR disk.

5. When prompted to insert the Windows ASR disk, insert the Arcserve Backup machine-specific disk and press Enter.

   The option loads a temporary Windows operating system, including the necessary SCSI and RAID drivers enabled by pressing the F6 key in a previous step.

6. The ASR process may prompt you for the disks to install the hardware drivers. In this scenario, we insert the disk and load the driver for the PERC 4/SC single channel U320 RAID controller.
7. After Windows loads the driver, insert the machine-specific disk again. The option reads the original system disk configuration from the machine-specific recovery disk.
8. The ASR process evaluates the available disk configuration.

   If ASR requires you to recreate disk partitions, a recovery process screen appears.

9. Press C to recreate your disk partitions or press F3 to quit. This screen does not appear if disk partitions are not being recreated.

   The Windows ASR disaster recovery bluescreen mode finishes and the computer reboots.

   Note: You may be prompted to insert the CADRIF disk. This is the machine-specific recovery disk.

   The Windows Install dialog appears.

10. You can perform the installation tasks for the ASR process.

    When these tasks are complete, the disaster recovery wizard appears.

11. Follow the instructions in the disaster recovery wizard.

    The wizard installs the Arcserve Backup files and services and connects to the Arcserve Backup backup server over the network.

12. When prompted, start the data restore operation.
13. At the end of the data restore process, boot back to your original system.