Important! Procedures in this chapter are for Unitrends systems running version 7.0 and higher. If replicating, both the source and target systems must be running 7.0 or higher. For systems running older versions, see the Legacy 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 (DR) strategy. This strategy includes decisions that are best made long before a failure occurs.
An effective disaster recovery strategy consists of four aspects:
• The decision to archive or replicate
• Preparation
• Restoring to a physical or virtual system
• Restoring backup data to clients
See the following topics for details:
• 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