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 Perform a virtual machine (VM) export. For more information, see “Exporting
Backup Information for your Windows Machine to a Virtual Machine” on page 144.
 Perform a bare metal restore (BMR). For more information, see “Roadmap for
Performing a Bare Metal Restore for a Windows Machine” on page 157.
 Perform Failback (in the event you have a Failover/Failback replication
environment set up). For more information, see “Performing Failback” on page 66.
Roadmap for Failover and Failback
When you encounter a disaster situation in which your source core and associated
agent have failed, you can enable failover in AppAssure 5 to switch protection to
your identical failover (target) core and launch a new (replicated) agent identical to
the failed agent. Once your source core and agents have been repaired, you can then
perform failback to restore the data from the failed-over core and agent back to the
source core and agent. In AppAssure 5, failover and failback involve the following
procedures.
 Setting up your environment for failover. See the section, “Setting Up an
Environment for Failover” on page 65.
 Perform failover for the target core and associated agent. See the section,
“Performing Failover on the Target Core” on page 66.
 Restore a source core by performing failback. See the section, “Performing
Failover on the Target Core” on page 66
Setting Up an Environment for Failover
Setting up your environment for failover requires that you have a source and target
AppAssure Core and associated agent set up for replication. Complete the steps in
this procedure to set up replication for failover.
To set up an environment for failover
1. Install an AppAssure 5 Core for the source and install an AppAssure 5 Core for the
target. For more information, see the AppAssure 5 Deployment Guide.
2. Install an AppAssure 5 Agent to be protected by the source core. For more
information, see the AppAssure 5 Deployment Guide.
3. Create one repository on the source core and one repository on the target core.
For more information, see “Creating a Repository” on page 37
4. Add the agent for protection under the source core.For more information, see
“Protecting a Machine” on page 92.
5. Set up replication from the source to target core and replicate the protected agent
with all recovery points. Follow the instructions in the section “Replicating to a
Self-Managed Core” on page 53 to add the target core to which to replicate.