10-19-2015 11:03 AM
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 exagrid (SAN based storage). Do I need this disk if the hardware itself dies and I need to restore my files? What advantage does the disk have over just getting my new hardware up, install the OS and then install BE2014 and restore my files that way? Does the disk allow you to restore the entire system state without having to reinstall the OS on failed hardware first? Thanks
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10-19-2015 11:23 AM
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.
10-19-2015 11:19 AM
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.
10-19-2015 11:23 AM
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.
10-19-2015 12:00 PM
Yes we are dedpulicating to two other off site exagrids as well, pretty much everything is setup as a full mesh so every site has every other sites contents. I guess one key point I left out is we are on Windows Server 2012 R2. At one point I heard Backup Exec 2014 couldn't utilize an SDR disk with the OS and BE combination we currently have. Is that still the case or no?
10-19-2015 01:52 PM
10-19-2015 02:39 PM
Can I jump straight to SP2 since its out now or should I just go to SP1?
10-19-2015 06:27 PM
10-19-2015 07:35 PM
10-21-2015 05:38 AM
If I have duplicated copy of backup set of "server" from deduplication folder into disk based storage, can I use SDR with this duplicated copy from disk?
10-21-2015 07:55 AM