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Disaster Recovery - Boot Disks

You must create boot disks to protect your machine from any future potential hazards. You can create these boot disks at any time, even after the workstation has crashed. The only pre-requisites are:

• The machine must have been backed up by a CA ARCserve Backup server.
• The machine must have the CA ARCserve Backup Disaster Recovery Option installed.

The Disaster Recovery boot disks are a modified set of Windows setup software.

• For Windows 2000, the Disaster Recovery will modify the four setup disks and create one additional disk.

These boot disks let you start up any server, including an unformatted hard drive server, and fully restore the system using backup media or an MTF tape.

With CA ARCserve Backup, a Disaster Recovery directory is automatically created within the CA ARCserve Backup home directory, after you perform your backups (local backups or backups through the Windows Client Agent). The Disaster Recovery directory is used to contain server-specific or workstation-specific data (such as configuration information and system-dependent files). The data stored here is used to create the boot disk for the machine.

Important! It is important that all personnel who may need to access the Disaster Recovery disks to be informed of their location.

For Windows 2000, you can create a bootable CD image to boot a machine that has crashed. You only need to create one machine-specific disk to complete the recovery.