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Create and Run the Recovery Scenario

After you prepare the bare metal machine, create a recovery scenario. While creating the recovery scenario, you specify the details of the bare metal machine and the replica volumes to restore. When you run the scenario, the applications and the data is restored to the bare metal machine.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to Arcserve RHA as an Administrator and click Scenario Management to open the Arcserve RHA Manager.

   Select the full system scenario and click Restore Data to open the Restore Data Wizard.

   

2. Select Bare Metal Recovery and click Next.

   The Recovery Point Selection screen opens and all the recovery points created by the forward scenario is listed.

3. Select a recovery point as required and click Next.

   The Recovery Destination screen opens.

4. Enter the IP address assigned to the bare metal machine in the Destination IP and Click Verify.

   Note: The source IP address is automatically populated.

   RHA verifies both the machines and displays the verification result in the Status section.

5. Click Next.

   The Volume Mapping screen opens.

   

6. The Volume Mapping screen lets you select source volumes that you want to recover on the destination. Click each volume on the source to select or exclude volumes. Based on the selected source volumes, RHA automatically maps the destination volumes. When you are running BMR on the original hardware, you would see similar volumes on the Destination.

   Custom disk mapping: Right-click source volumes to open the Custom disk mapping dialog. The Custom disk mapping lets you manually map the source volumes to destination volumes.

   

   Preserve Existing Volumes on Destination: This option lets you keep the current volume on the bare metal machine (destination machine). All check boxes are cleared from the source and you have to manually map the disk using the Custom disk mapping dialog.

   In some cases you want to change the existing disk and volume layout of the destination, for example, you want to create dynamic disks on the source. To create new disk and volume layout on the destination machine, you can use the DiskPart command. For more information about the DiskPart command, see Creating Dynamic Disks Using the DiskPart Command.

   After you create the disk and volumes, click Refresh to see new disks and volumes.

   Be aware of the following considerations:

   • To recover to dynamic disks and volumes, you must select "Preserve Existing Volumes on Destination" and create disks and volumes manually on the destination machine.
   • When you select Preserve Existing Volumes on Destination, the volume synchronization is disabled.
7. Click Next.

   The Recovery Verification screen opens. RHA verifies all scenario settings to help ensure successful recovery. Any errors must be resolved before continuing. Also, verify any warnings and resolve if necessary.

8. Click Run.

   The Run dialog opens.

9. Select the synchronization method and click OK.

   

   File Synchronization

   Specifies that synchronization happens at the file level.

   Block Synchronization

   Specifies that synchronization happens at the block level.

   Offline Synchronization

   Specifies that synchronization happens manually, data is replicated to an external device and then from the device to the Replica server. This method is effective for transferring huge data volumes with low network bandwidth.

   Perform the following steps to run offline synchronization.

   1. Check the Event log for the folder name.

   

   1. Log in to the appliance server and locate the VSS mount point folder.

   

   1. Manually copy data from the VSS path created on the appliance server or the VM generated by switchover to an external device or optical media (DVD-R, CD-R).

      Physically transport the external media to the BMR server. During transport, the production dataset caches any changes in the source data in the Replica spool.

   2. Copy the data that is stored on the external media to the required root directory on the BMR server.
   3. Use a copy utility such as xcopy or fastcopy to copy all files and folders from the appliance server to the BMR server.

      xcopy [Source] [Destination] /E /C /H /R
      

      Data copy starts.

   4. Navigate to the RHA Manager and click the Offline Sync Management button.

      The Block synchronization starts.

After the synchronization process is completed, all applications and data are restored to the bare metal machine.