Disaster Recovery Guide for Windows

2008 and RHEL 5.x platforms with
external disk support
HP Data Protector 6.11

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Table of contents
1. Assisted Manual Disaster Recovery .................................................................................................... 2
2. Overview / Procedure ...................................................................................................................... 2
2.1 AMDR for Windows 2008 systems .............................................................................................. 2
Phase 0 ....................................................................................................................................... 2
Phase 1 ....................................................................................................................................... 2
Phase 2 ....................................................................................................................................... 2
Phase 3 ....................................................................................................................................... 2
2.2 AMDR for Linux systems .............................................................................................................. 2
Phase 0 ....................................................................................................................................... 2
Phase 1 ....................................................................................................................................... 2
Phase 2 ....................................................................................................................................... 2
3. Requirements ................................................................................................................................... 2
4. Guidelines for Creating a Disaster Recovery for Windows 2008 R2 x86-64 ........................................... 3
4.1 Preparation ............................................................................................................................... 3
4.2 Step-by-step procedure ............................................................................................................... 3
4.2.1 Backup............................................................................................................................... 3
4.2.2 Backup of al files in the system ............................................................................................. 3
4.2.3 Update the SRD file ............................................................................................................. 3
4.3 Creating a Mini OS ................................................................................................................... 7
4.4 Recovery process ....................................................................................................................... 7
4.4.1 Replacing the faulty / new hard disk ..................................................................................... 7
4.4.2 Instal ing the Mini OS .......................................................................................................... 7
4.4.3 Configuring the IP address ................................................................................................... 8
4.4.4 Preparing the disk partion .................................................................................................... 8
4.4.5 Instal ing the Mini DP ........................................................................................................... 9
4.4.6 Running the restore process ................................................................................................ 10
Notes ........................................................................................................................................... 10
5. Guidelines for Creating a Disaster Recovery for Linux ........................................................................ 10
5.1 Backup ................................................................................................................................... 10
5.2 Restore ................................................................................................................................... 10
5.2.1 Minimal Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 install ............................................................................ 10
5.2.2 Boot from a RHEL 5.5 OS boot CD ...................................................................................... 10
5.2.3 Preparing the disk partition ................................................................................................. 10
5.2.4 Configuring the IP address and completing the installation ..................................................... 10
5.2.5 Installing the Data Protector agents ...................................................................................... 12
5.2.6 Restoring the entire file system............................................................................................. 12
For more information .......................................................................................................................... 13

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