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Recover Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 from a Disaster

You can perform disaster recovery on Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 systems using the Bootable CD method.

Follow these steps:

1. Start the system and insert the Windows Server 2008 installation media in the optical drive. Verify that the BIOS is configured to boot from this optical drive. Insert the machine specific recovery disk in the floppy drive or USB port, and turn on the system.

   Note: You can also use the USB flash media for recovery. If there is more than one raw disk present in the system, you will be prompted to reboot the system. Click OK to reboot and follow step 1.

2. Insert the Arcserve Backup Disaster Recovery media, and then click Next to open the Advanced Disaster Recovery dialog and start the recovery process.

   

3. Specify the language and keyboard settings and click Next.
4. Specify the path for machine specific disk, and then click Next to open the Choose Mode dialog. You can specify either a local path, or a network location.

   Note: In <win> Server 2008 disaster recovery, multiple instances of machine specific disks are stored on the storage media.

5. Select from the following modes that appear on the Choose Mode dialog:

   Express Mode

   Recovers the system by using the machine default settings stored during backup.

   Advanced Mode

   Recovers the system using the customized process. You can configure the network card, change the login credentials and also select the sessions.

   For Express Mode:

   1. Select the Express mode, and click Next.

      

      The Enter caroot Password dialog opens.

      

      As the disaster recovery session has to be restored during this period, you will be prompted to provide the caroot password. This could be for the following reasons:

      • At least one session was encrypted by a key or protected by a password.
      • When you set to Save Current Session/Encryption Password to the Arcserve Backup database in the global option during backup.
      • The caroot password is not empty.

      Note: This password is required to work with the saved session password or the encryption key to restore encrypted or password protected sessions. Enter the correct caroot password, if necessary, to avoid manual decryption of each session.

   2. Enter the password, and click OK.

      Important! Windows formats the disk after you click OK.

   3. Click Next to start the restore process.

For Advanced Mode:

1. Select the Advanced mode on the Select Mode dialog, and click Next.

   

   The Enter caroot Password dialog opens.

   

2. Enter the password, and click OK.

   The Load Drivers dialog opens.

   

3. Verify the devices and click Next on Load Drivers dialog.

   Important! Windows formats the disk after you click Next.

   The Network connections dialog opens followed by the Session dialog.

   

4. Select the session that you want to restore, click Next.

   

   You can enter the password for each session depending on the status of each key at the end of each row in the Session Assign dialog. Types of keys include:

   • When the session has a key option, it means that the session was encrypted by a key, but the key was not saved in the database. You must provide the encryption key to restore these sessions.
   • When the session has a key option with a tick mark, then the session was encrypted by a key or protected by a password and the encryption key or the session password was saved in the database. No encryption key or session password is required to restore these sessions.
   • When the session has a key option with a question mark, then the session password status is unknown. You can enter the session password, if necessary.

   The Summary dialog opens.

5. Verify the Summary list.

   

6. Click Start Disaster Recovery to start the process.

   The data is copied from the specified sessions to the specified partitions. A progress bar shows the progress of the restore process.

   Note: You can run most of the 32-bit Windows programs, such as regedit.exe, from the DOS prompt window. Click Utilities, and select Run to open a Windows command line console window.

The Disaster Recovery process is complete.

Note: You can use the keyboard shortcut Shift+ r on the Disaster Recovery wizard to reboot.

When the computer restarts, it is restored to the state it was in at the time of the last full backup.

Important! When the Arcserve Backup database is installed on this computer and this computer is not the Arcserve Backup primary server, you must run the Arcserve Database Recovery Wizard at this time. For more information about the Arcserve Database Recovery Wizard, see the topic Recover the Arcserve Backup Database Using Arcserve Database Recovery Wizard in the Arcserve Backup Administration Guide.

Note: To run the Install and Reboot options on the Disaster Recovery wizard while using USB backup devices dialogs, use the following keyboard shortcuts:

• Install—Shift + i
• Reboot—Shift + r