HP StorageWorks Application Recovery Manager Administrator's Guide (T4395-96004, February 2008)

Restore
Overview
Chapter 454
Overview
Instant recovery restores data directly from a replica to source volumes.
All data in the replica is restored (regardless of selections during
backup). For instant recovery concepts, see the online Help.
HP StorageWorks EVA Considerations
• After instant recovery, the replica used in the session can become the
source volumes (physical location of the original application data
changes). This depends on the restore options you select in the GUI.
Additionally, if a replica resides in another disk group than the source
volumes, this replica disk group becomes the disk group of the source
volumes.
• Depending on the restore options you select in the GUI, the restored
replica can be deleted from the replica set after instant recovery. In
this case, you cannot run instant recovery using the same session ID
again.
• If you restore using HP StorageWorks EVA, before instant recovery, it
is recommended to check if the SMI-S CIMOMs were configured
properly in the Application Recovery Manager cell by running the
omnidbsmis -ompasswd -check [<hostname>] command.
This command performs a health check of you environment, which
may help identify such potential problems as wrong user name or
password provided, a broken network connection, a DNS resolution
problem...
IMPORTANT After instant recovery, restored filesystems are mounted to the same
mount points or drive letters as they were at the backup time. If these
mount points or drive letters have other filesystems mounted, these
filesystems are automatically dismounted before instant recovery, and
the restored filesystems are mounted afterwards.