Disaster Recovery

SRC C167280A/C1F7280A

Hi, We are at a DR test site and on the first stage of IPL'ing from the SAVSYS tape, the IPL is still progressing with the SRC - C167280A/C1F7280A. Now are these SRC's quite normal?

Does SRM work with vSphere vCenter server?

Using between a few sites (active/active) and wondering if Site Recovery Manager tool works with vSphere vCenter server? Thank you very much. Moderator Note: This is a submitted question

Access rights for Storage Team members

We are having to justify the access rights that our storage team members have to the Windows, VMWare, and Unix servers. Our storage team is also responsible for all backups, restores, and disaster recovery. Can any one provide a best practices or a already compiled list of access rights that...

Data recovery on Windows XP external drive

hi..im using windows XP professional,and i have external hard disk to back up my files..im copying some file to my external hard disk when the computer hangs and I unplug the external disk to the USB of my computer but when i check it again the filenames of the files and folder in the external disk...

Backup of encrypted data to USB device

I'm using Ultimaco encryption software and I'm looking for any software/utility that can read files from an encrypted hard drive and copy the data to a USB device. I need to be able to do this for OS disaster recovery in the event of a crash. Any suggestions or recommendations are appreciated....

How to set up a disaster recovery (DR) VLAN to replicate data

I am new to disaster recovery (DR) and IT management. I have a production site with Cisco switches, and I'm backing up data to a storage area network (SAN). I have a GB link to a remote office and would like to replicate data to another SAN at the remote location. How do I set up a DR virtual LAN...

How to configure disaster recovery with BrightStor ARCserve Backup

i wanna know how to make disaster recovery to the arcserve backup?

Configuring a disaster recovery plan for Exchange Server 2007

I have disaster recovery plan for my Exchange server in mind, but I like to know if you have any idea how to configure it appropriately. I have a production server running Exchange Server 2007, and I backup with Data Protection Manager 2007 every 15 minutes. I like to have a virtual machine on...

DR for Exchange 2003 in SAN

I have been given a task of setting up Disaster Recovery for Exchange 2003 Infrastructure. We have several Exchange Servers in each of the 2 Sites. Each Site will be a Recovery Center for each other. I'd like to set up a block level Exchange DR between the 2 Sites. All Exchange data are currently...

Copying our disaster recovery database on a SQL Server

We are using log shipping on our SQL Server as our disaster recovery solution. When we want to test our disaster recovey with a test transaction, not production, we need to use the secondary copy. However, we don't want to stop it and lose consistency between disaster recovery and the production...

Restore deleted 3rd party applications with F11 System Recovery?

Does F11 restore delete 3rd party applications?

Disaster Recovery

Hello there This is Faisal Rafiq, kindly send me the best link of Windows Disaster Recovery articles. Thanks.

Windows 2003 - computers at different locations with the same ip

've been tasked designing a plan to allow users to use their credentials on the servers at our diaster recovery site. I'm a unix guy, and am swimming way past the ropes. Here is the situation: We have a datacenter for our production servers. It is a Windows 2003 level domain, with all Windows...

Monitoring and management of real time RPO and RTO

Does it is practically possible to monitor and manage real time RPO and RTO for Disaster recovery environment?

Is anyone using Dell MessageOne for email continuity and archiving?

I am tasked with gathering information and comparing Dell's MessageOne archiving and email continuity service, and compare it with our current Symantec Enterprise Vault. This is fairly difficult, because MessageOne is still fairly new, and it will be impossible to find someone that has used both....

Configure User Profile after server formatting

Hi, I have 90 machine in company Last Two Incidence Server has to be formated after that install ad ,dns and all But after that every user profile has to reconfigure bze of shareing and network problem any type of solution to after the formating server no need to reconfigure the user profile ...

How organizations deal with network design for disaster recovery

I am looking for some information about how organizations deal with network design for disaster recovery. Specifically, my issue is about DNS domains, and whether to have a single network with a redundant warm site in a single domain shared by production processing, requiring unique IP addresses...

Replicating SAN to DR Site

We are looking to build a warm DR site across town. How are other companies managing to duplicate their data in a reasonable time to another location? We are looking to copy around 150 GB per day. We don't need up to the minute data, up to the hour or two is acceptable.

Using NTBACKUP to recover from system failure in Exchange 2003

I’m working for small company and is documenting and testing a disaster recovery plan for all my servers. The problem I keep running into is finding a plan that works using NTBACKUP to restore my exchange 2003 running on Windows server to its original state if system completely failed. I done...

To have unique server names and IP addresses in secondary dedicated warm site, or not?

I'm not sure which is the lesser of two evils. To go with recovery to a secondary site that emulates production (including exact domains, server names and IP addresses), or to have sedcondary site systems that have unique IP addresses and server names all on the same domain. Anyone know of...