Recovering Data and Servers › Restoring Data to a Bare Metal Machine after Failover › (Optional) Perform a Manual Switchover

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(Optional) Perform a Manual Switchover

If you chose manual switchover, data is synchronized after you run the recovery scenario. To perform the switchover, select the scenario and manually initiate the switchover process.

Follow these steps

  1. Open CA ARCserve RHA Manager and select the recovery scenario from the Scenario pane. Verify that the scenario is running.
  2. Click Perform Switchover.

    A confirmation message appears.

  3. Click Yes.

    A switchover process is initiated and the Master server is disconnected. The bare metal machine is rebooted.

Now, the bare metal machine is ready to take over as the Master server.