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How to Prepare and Perform a Riverbed SteelStore Appliance Cold Disaster Recovery

A Riverbed SteelStore appliance is typically configured to replicate files to your cloud provider. You can optionally configure the appliance to perform an asynchronous replication to a dedicated secondary appliance at a remote location.

If you do not replicate files to a secondary appliance at a disaster recovery site, then a cold site recovery of the Riverbed SteelStore appliance is required. The basic steps in a cold recovery are:

1. Acquire and install a new appliance.
2. Import the configuration data (which is backed up from the primary appliance).
3. Download backups from the cloud provider to repopulate.

The Best Practices Guide provides disaster recovery recommendations.

Use the following scenario to guide you through the process:

1. Review Riverbed SteelStore Documentation for Cold Recovery.
2. Prepare for disaster recovery.
3. Perform a disaster recovery test.
4. Perform the disaster recovery:
   1. Log in to the appliance and repopulate the files.
   2. Check for changes in the Linux server configuration.
   3. Check softlinks that the Cloud Connector uses.
   4. Test access after cold recovery.