HP Storage Mirroring V5 Software - Manual (Page 140)

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X Restoration for Disaster Recovery
Restoration for Disaster Recovery
If you are not using failover and your connection is for disaster recovery, the Management Console provides an easy method
for restoring replicated data from the target back to the original source or to a new source server. You are only required to
input the original source, the target, and the name of the replication set you want to restore. Storage Mirroring handles the
rest, including selecting the files in the replication set and restoring them to the correct location.
1. From the Management Console, select Tools , Restoration Manager .
2. Select the Original Source machine. This is your source machine where the data originally resided.
3. Select the Restore From machine. This is the target machine where the copy of the data is stored.
4. Replication Set contains the replication set information stored on the target machine (the machine in Restore From ). If
no replication sets are available, the list will be blank. Select the replication set that corresponds to the data that you
need to restore.
5. Select the Restore To machine. This is the machine where the copy of the data will be sent.
6. The Restore To and Restore From paths will automatically be populated when the replication set is selected. The
restore to path is the directory that is the common parent directory for all of the directories in the replication set. If the
replication set crosses volumes, then there will be a separate path for each volume. The restore from path is the path on
the target server where the replicated files are located.
7. Select the Use Backup Replication Set check box to use the target’s copy of the replication set database for the
restoration. If this check box is not marked, you will be accessing the replication set information from the source.
8. Select the Restore Replication Set check box to restore the target’s copy of the replication set database to the source
during the restoration process.
9. Select the restoration conditionals that you want to use.
NOTE: Restoration applies to the entire replication set and should not be used for individual file restoration.
Individual files can be restored manually by copying the files from the target to the source machine using
native operating system tools.
NOTE: Restoring across a NAT router requires the ports to be the same as the original connection. If the ports
have been modified (manually or reinstalled), you must set the port numbers to the same values as the last
valid source/target connection.