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Create Disaster Recovery ACSLS Disks

Important! Arcserve has signed an agreement with STK that stipulates that you, as an Arcserve customer, can copy and reproduce directly a single copy of the StorageTek Library Attach from each of your computers to a User Disaster Recovery disk and a single copy for archival purposes. You can replace this single copy from time to time. Additionally, if you have multiple off-site disaster recovery locations, you can make this number of copies of the StorageTek Library Attach for each offsite disaster recovery location.

To create the Disaster Recovery ACSLS disk

1. From the Manager, open the Create Boot Kit wizard, select the Create Machine Specific Recovery Disk option, and click Next.
2. Select your local backup server from the list of backup servers and click OK.
3. Select your local backup server from the list of protected client machines and click Next.
4. Insert an empty floppy disk into the floppy drive and click Start. The wizard creates the machine-specific recovery disk for the local backup server.
5. The wizard checks whether a Disaster Recovery ACSLS disk is needed to recover the local backup server. You can choose whether to create the disk or not.
   • Click Yes to create this disk if this is the first time the disk is being created.
   • You do not have to create this disk if all of the following conditions apply:
     • A Disaster Recovery ACSLS disk has already been created for the local backup server machine.
     • The backup media (Tape Library Option or Enterprise Option for StorageTek ACSLS) configuration has not changed since the last disk was created.
     • The StorageTek LibAttach configuration has not changed since the last disk was created.

     If these conditions are met, exit the wizard.

6. Insert an empty floppy disk into the floppy drive and click Start.
7. The wizard locates all the necessary files and copies these files onto the floppy disk. If the wizard fails to locate any of the files, it prompts you to locate each missing file manually.

Your Disaster Recovery ACSLS disk has been created.

Note: We strongly recommend that you create the Disaster Recovery ACSLS disk immediately after the first full backup of the local backup server machine.