Legacy Disaster Recovery

Important! Procedures in this chapter are for Unitrends systems running pre-7.0 versions. For systems running version 7.0 and higher, see the Disaster Recovery chapter.

Protecting an organization’s data and IT infrastructure has never been more important. This document describes the steps the Unitrends customer needs to take when planning and implementing a disaster recovery strategy. This strategy includes decisions that are best made long before a failure occurs.

An effective disaster recovery strategy consists of four aspects:

1        The decision to archive or vault

2        Preparation

3        Restoring to a physical or virtual system

4        Restoring backup data to clients

See the following topics for details:

     Archive or vault

     Preparation

     Restoring the system

     Scenario 1: Restoring a backup system

     Scenario 2: Recovering from a corrupt backup device

     Scenario 3: Recovering from a corrupt RAID

     Scenario 4: Recovering a corrupt internal drive

     Additional requirements for restoring to a virtual system

     Storage setup

     Disaster recovery from vault

     Automatic disaster recovery from vault

     Disaster recovery from archive

     Post-recovery considerations

     Restoring backup data to the clients