Disaster Recovery

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:

     Archive or replicate

     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

     Post-recovery considerations

     Restoring backup data to the clients