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Intelligent Disaster Recovery

October 2008

The backup job status can be monitored from the Job Monitor tab on the Backup Exec interface.

The backup job has completed successfully when the backup job appears under the Job History

and is listed as Successful.

Step 3: Preparing Disaster Recovery Media

1. From the Tools Menu, Select “Wizards” and then select the “Intelligent Disaster Recovery

Preparation Wizard.”

2. Select “Next” to continue the wizard.

3. Select the type of media that will be used to create the DR media:

• Bootable CD Image for Use with CD Writers (ISO 9660)

• Bootable Tape Image for use with bootable tape devices

• Non-bootable disaster recovery CD Image

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• Disaster recovery information (.dr) files

BEST PRACTICE: Creating a bootable CD image provides the quickest methodology for

performing the recovery of a failed system. Backup Exec will create an image that must be

burned to CD using third party software. A blank CD, third party software, and a writable CD

device must be available. For the purpose of this article, a bootable CD Image will be used.

4. Select “Bootable CD Image” for Use with CD Writer (ISO 9660) and select Next.

5. Select “Next” to continue the CD Image Creation Wizard.

6. Select the systems that you want use for recovery with the bootable CD Image. Move each

system from the list of Available Computers to the list of Selected Computers. NOTE: All of

the selected computer must be running the same version of the Windows operating system.

Select “Next” to continue.

7. Specify the location that Backup Exec will create an ISO 9660 CD image. Select “Next” to

continue.

8. Backup Exec utilizes the Windows operating system installation files in the creation of the

IDR recovery media. The Windows operating system files provided must match the version

and language of the systems being protected. Specify the location of the Windows operating

system installation files and select “Next” to continue.

9. The Intelligent Disaster Recovery Wizard will create the bootable CD image. This may take a

few minutes. When complete, the ISO image will be stored in the location specified in step 7.

Select “Next” to continue.

10. The ISO image must be burned to a CD using third party software before it can be utilized as

part of the disaster recovery process. Select Finish to complete the IDR Preparation Wizard.

Recovering a System

In the event that a protected system experiences a disaster or system crash, it can be recovered

in the following 2 steps:

• Boot the failed system with the Disaster Recovery CD Media that was created with the IDR

Preparation Wizard

• Recover the system and data to utilizing the Disaster Recovery Wizard