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ComputerMan2177
Level 3
9 years ago

Simplified Disaster Recovery Disk

Can someone please just shed some light on the Simplified Disaster Recovery Disk?  What exactly is it and how large will it be if I create one?  Basically I have all my backups stored on an external ...
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Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Best Practice
System Recovery Disk
Windows Server (2003-2008)
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    Colin_Weaver
    9 years ago

    Important Points: 

     

    You might want to create a customized SDR disk to check that you can add SAN HBA drivers to get to your Exagrid storage as in your situation it won't be much use if you can't get to your backup sets from inside SDR

     

    Also are you deduplicating onto the Exagrid or standard DIsk Storage (B2D) as an SDR disk can restore remote systems where deduplication is involved (i.e. where the Backup Exec Server is up and running)  but it cannot access Dedup to restore a Backup Exec Server.

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Colin_Weaver
Moderator
9 years ago

The SDR disk is a bootable DVD that will start enough of an operting system to do a restore without needing to manually install an OS first.

 

If you don't use the disk, then to DR a server, you would have to manually install an OS and patch it to similar levels as the original, then install components of Backup Exec (possibly with custom paths if recovering the Backup Exec Server itself) and make sure these are patched. Then do one or more restore jobs to recover the server itself.

 

Note: even if using the SDR disk, you might have to do a secondary restore of database content after you have got the OS back and if restoring systems backed up with a virtual agent (Hyper-V or VMware) then the SDR disk is not needed.