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BMR and Reverse Replication

Arcserve UDP lets you process BMR and reverse replication for your full system scenarios.

Follow these steps:

1. Prepare a bare metal machine by booting the computer from the RHA BMR CD.
2. Select the full system scenario and click Restore from the Actions drop-down menu.

   The Restore Data Wizard opens.

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

   Note: On the Volume Mapping page, if the volumes are mapped automatically for the source and destination, the custom volume mapping is disabled. To enable the custom volume mapping, click Clear to remove the previous mapping. Right click on the selected volume and select Custom volume mapping to open the Resize volume size dialog and change the size as required.

To run Reverse Replication, Follow these steps:

1. Prepare a bare metal machine by booting the computer from RHA BMR CD.
2. Select the full system scenario that performed switchover or failover and click Run in the Actions drop-down menu.

   The Restore Data Wizard opens.

3. 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. If you selected manual switchover, you have to manually initiate the switchover process.