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Create Machine Specific Disks for Disaster Recovery

The machine specific disk is the recovery disk used with the Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation media and the CA ARCserve Backup CD to perform disaster recovery using the Bootable CD method.

To create a machine specific disk

  1. Insert the disk labeled CA ARCserve Backup machine specific disk into the server’s disk drive.
  2. From the Quick Start menu in the Home Page, select Utilities and then click Create Boot Kit Wizard.

    The Create Boot Kit Wizard dialog opens.

    Boot Kit Wizard

  3. Confirm the appropriate server and domain details. Enter the domain user name and password, and then click Next.

    The Select Client Server screen opens. In this pane, the Create Boot Disk Wizard displays a list of computers that have been backed up by CA ARCserve Backup. The panel appears blank if CA ARCserve Backup has not backed up a computer.

    Select Client Server dialog

  4. Choose the appropriate computer and click Next.
  5. Select Machine Specific Disk, and then click Next.

    MSD_boot kit wizard

    The Summary of Backup Information dialog opens.

  6. Verify the available list of sessions that must be recovered, and then click Next.

    Verify the available list of sessions that must be recovered

  7. Insert a blank floppy disk.

    The Create Boot Floppy Disk dialog opens.

    Create Boot Floppy Disk dialog

  8. If you are performing disaster recovery in the following environments, enable Copy Network Adapter driver to MSD:
  9. Click Start.

    The files are copied to your machine-specific recovery disk.

    Create Boot Floppy Disk

  10. Click Next, and then click Finish.

The newly created disk is a CA ARCserve Backup machine-specific disaster recovery disk. It is also the Windows ASR disk during the first phase of disaster recovery in ASR mode. You can use this disk to recover the local or remote computer in the event of a disaster.