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Disaster Preparation

For a typical Windows Server 2003 disaster recovery operation, you must create or obtain the following media:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 CD. You must use the same version and edition you installed on your machine.
• The Arcserve Backup CD/DVD.
• The machine-specific recovery disk created for the system to be recovered.

In addition, you must create an additional disk, the Disaster Recovery ACSLS disk, to support local disaster recovery using a StorageTek ACSLS library.

To create the Disaster Recovery ACSLS disk, you must have at least one full backup of the local backup server. If not, take a full local backup of the backup server machine. You can only create the disk from the local backup server itself and cannot use the Create Boot Kit wizard from a remote backup server.