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

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restored automatically. If the mount points are not recreated, data might be restored to the wrong
location.
4. Guidelines for Creating a Disaster Recovery for
Windows 2008 R2 x86-64
4.1 Preparation
To prepare for a successful disaster recovery, you should follow the instructions related to the general
preparation procedure together with specific method requirements. Advance preparation is essential
to perform the disaster recovery fast and efficiently. You should also give special attention to the
disaster recovery preparation of the Cell Manager and the Microsoft Cluster Server.
4.2 Step-by-step procedure
4.2.1 Backup
The backup process includes running a back up session for all the files in the system and updating the
SRD file. The SRD file contains information about the file system, and other relevant data.
4.2.2 Backup of all files in the system
A backup is done of all the files which have to be recovered in case of a disaster event. While
running the backup process, the following options must be checked in the Data Protector Cell
Manager GUI (graphical user interface):
1. Copy the full DR image (Figure 2)
2. Use shadow copy (Figure 3)
3. Detect VTFS hard links (Figure 3)
4.2.3 Update the SRD file
The SRD file is saved in a file location. It contains the information about the layout information of the
file system. The data following the layout tag in the SRD file is to be noted down and will be provided
as the unique disk ID while installing the Mini OS.