Disaster Recovery Pre-Configuration

When performing a disaster recovery, some scenarios require additional configuration prior to performing the disaster recovery.

If you have more than one media device, you must configure that device prior to beginning the disaster recovery. The default device created by a Backup install is always a 4mm device. If your device is not a 4mm device, you must delete this device from within Backup and create a correct device type.

After reinstalling Backup, and before starting mmrecov, edit the client resource for the server and set its browse and retention policies to a decade. This allows all of the server's records to be recovered by mmrecov. If you do not do this, all records are recovered, but any records that are more than a month old are then discarded (since the browse policy is one month by default).

If you relocated the server's file index path to a new location, you must edit the client index path resource prior to beginning the disaster recovery. The correct steps are to change the index path to match the path used prior to the disaster. Restart the services to alert Backup that the index path has changed. Finally, run nsrck -c from the /usr/sbin/nsr directory to create an empty file index into which the records are recovered.