Disaster Recovery Guide for Windows 2008 and RHEL 5.x platforms with external disk support

Disaster Recovery Guide for Windows
2008 and RHEL 5.x platforms with
external disk support
HP Data Protector 6.11
Technical white paper
Table of contents
1. Assisted Manual Disaster Recovery .................................................................................................... 2
2. Overview / Procedure ...................................................................................................................... 2
2.1 AMDR for Windows 2008 systems .............................................................................................. 2
Phase 0 ....................................................................................................................................... 2
Phase 1 ....................................................................................................................................... 2
Phase 2 ....................................................................................................................................... 2
Phase 3 ....................................................................................................................................... 2
2.2 AMDR for Linux systems .............................................................................................................. 2
Phase 0 ....................................................................................................................................... 2
Phase 1 ....................................................................................................................................... 2
Phase 2 ....................................................................................................................................... 2
3. Requirements ................................................................................................................................... 2
4. Guidelines for Creating a Disaster Recovery for Windows 2008 R2 x86-64 ........................................... 3
4.1 Preparation ............................................................................................................................... 3
4.2 Step-by-step procedure ............................................................................................................... 3
4.2.1 Backup............................................................................................................................... 3
4.2.2 Backup of all files in the system ............................................................................................. 3
4.2.3 Update the SRD file ............................................................................................................. 3
4.3 Creating a Mini OS ................................................................................................................... 7
4.4 Recovery process ....................................................................................................................... 7
4.4.1 Replacing the faulty / new hard disk ..................................................................................... 7
4.4.2 Installing the Mini OS .......................................................................................................... 7
4.4.3 Configuring the IP address ................................................................................................... 8
4.4.4 Preparing the disk partion .................................................................................................... 8
4.4.5 Installing the Mini DP ........................................................................................................... 9
4.4.6 Running the restore process ................................................................................................ 10
Notes ........................................................................................................................................... 10
5. Guidelines for Creating a Disaster Recovery for Linux ........................................................................ 10
5.1 Backup ................................................................................................................................... 10
5.2 Restore ................................................................................................................................... 10
5.2.1 Minimal Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 install ............................................................................ 10
5.2.2 Boot from a RHEL 5.5 OS boot CD ...................................................................................... 10
5.2.3 Preparing the disk partition ................................................................................................. 10
5.2.4 Configuring the IP address and completing the installation ..................................................... 10
5.2.5 Installing the Data Protector agents ...................................................................................... 12
5.2.6 Restoring the entire file system............................................................................................. 12
For more information .......................................................................................................................... 13