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Disaster Recovery

One Button Disaster Recovery of a Windows System

Chapter 10

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an OBDR backup specification to keep it in the original One Button
Disaster Recovery format. If saved as a standard backup
specification, it is not usable for OBDR purposes.

10. Click

Start Backup

to run the backup interactively. The

Start

Backup

dialog box appears. Click

OK

to start the backup.

A bootable image file of the system, containing all information required
for installation and configuration of temporary DR OS, will be written at
the beginning of the tape to make it bootable.

IMPORTANT

You have to perform a new backup and prepare a bootable backup
medium after each hardware, software or configuration change. This also
applies to any network configuration changes, such as change of IP
address or DNS server.

IMPORTANT

It is recommended to restrict access to backup media due to security
reasons.

Recovery

You need the following to successfully perform a disaster recovery on the
crashed system:

• A new hard disk to replace your crashed disk (if needed).

• A bootable backup medium with all critical objects of the client that

you want to recover.

• An OBDR device connected locally to the target system.

OBDR Procedure

The following is a step-by-step procedure for performing a One Button
Disaster Recovery of a Windows system:

1. Insert the tape containing the image file and your backed up data into

an OBDR device.

2. Shut down the target system and power off the tape device.

3. Power on the target system and while it is being initialized, press the

eject button to the tape device and power it on. For details see the