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Introduction

Disaster recovery is a backup and recovery process used to protect computing environments against the loss of data caused by a catastrophic events or natural disasters. Disasters can be caused by fire, an earthquake, employee sabotage, a computer virus, or a power failure.

There are many time consuming tasks—including installation of the base operating systems and setup of the servers—that would usually have to be manually performed after a disaster. The Arcserve Backup Disaster Recovery option lets you restore your server reliably, making more efficient use of time by taking you from boot media, to backup media, to an operational state and allows users with minimal server configuration experience to recover sophisticated systems.