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Disaster Recovery - Overview

To ensure against data loss, maintain current backups of all your servers and workstations. If you do not have these backups, CA ARCserve Backup is limited in its ability to recover data. Be sure to create a media rotation scheme and a schedule to maintain current backups.

By default, the CA ARCserve Backup server always generates or updates disaster recovery information for all full backup systems, even when the CA ARCserve Backup Disaster Recovery Option is not installed. This ensures that the latest backup information is always available if the CA ARCserve Backup Disaster Recovery Option is installed a later time.

Note: To disable the CA ARCserve Backup server from generating or updating the disaster recovery information, create and set the following registry key value to 1 on the CA ARCserve Backup server machine:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Computer Associates\CA ARCserve Backup\Base\Task\backup\SkipDRSession

For more information, see the Disaster Recovery Option Guide.