Recovering Data and Servers › Restoring Data to a Bare Metal Machine after Failover › Create and Run the Recovery Scenario

Create and Run the Recovery Scenario

Now the bare metal machine is in the network with a unique IP address. To restore data, create a recovery scenario with this bare metal machine as the Replica. This way, you can restore data from the virtual machine to the bare metal machine.

Specify the following details on Restore Data Wizard screens to create the scenario:

• IP address of the bare metal machine.
• Volumes--Select the volumes on the Master that you want to restore. You can also manually resize the volume to a different size on the bare metal machine.

  Note: You can exclude volumes that you do not want to restore.

• Network Adapters—Select the Replica network adapter that you want to map to the Master network adapter. For servers in a workgroup, use Redirect DNS. To use Redirect DNS, specify domain administrator credentials.
• Switchover type--Automatic or Manual.

When you run this scenario, data is restored to the bare metal machine. Depending on the switchover type, either the switchover process is automatically triggered or you manually initiate the process.

Follow these steps

1. Log in to CA ARCserve RHA as an Administrator.
2. From the Quick Start pane, click Scenario Management to open the CA ARCserve RHA Manager.
3. Select the full system scenario that performed switchover or failover and click Run.

   The Restore Data Wizard opens.

4. Follow the instructions on wizard screens to create and run the recovery scenario.

   Data is restored to the bare metal machine. If you selected automatic switchover, the switchover process is initiated and the bare metal machine is ready to take over as the Master server.

   Note: If you selected the manual switchover, manually initiate the switchover process. See (Optional) Perform a Manual Switchover.

The switchover process performs the following tasks:

• Moves the resources like IPs, DNS from the Master server to the bare metal machine.
• Performs driver injection on the bare metal machine.
• Shuts down the Master.
• Reboots the bare metal machine.

  Note: if you stop a scenario, then above tasks are not executed and bare metal machine is not recovered completely.