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How to Perform Disaster Recovery Using the Incremental and Differential Sessions

You can perform disaster recovery using the incremental and differential sessions. This can be done after all backups are run or after every incremental or differential backup. This process works for all the Windows platforms.

To perform disaster recovery using incremental and differential sessions

1. Run series of full and incremental and differential backups using the GFS rotation or custom rotation methods.

   The full, incremental, and differential sessions can reside on different media or the same media.

2. Create a machine specific disk after all backups are run or after every incremental or differential backup.

   The machine specific disk would have information about all backups (full, incremental or differential) that were performed before the MSD was created.

   If you configure an alternate location, you can also create machine specific disks before you perform disaster recovery.

3. Run the disaster recovery process.

   Note: The Disaster Recovery Option will not automatically scan any additional sessions that are backed up after you create machine specific disks.

   The Disaster Recovery Option will automatically restore all the sessions, including full, incremental, and differential sessions shown in the list.