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Perform Cold Disaster Recovery

Note: Riverbed changed the product name from Whitewater to SteelStore. Their documentation names may not reflect this change.

This topic provides an overview of the Whitewater Cloud Storage Appliance User's Guide procedure for disaster recovery, but includes considerations. Because the Riverbed instructions may change with new releases, follow the steps in the Riverbed Whitewater documentation.

If the primary SteelStore device is not connected to the cloud provider, configure a new SteelStore appliance as its replacement. Riverbed describes this as a cold site replacement. Riverbed indicates that disaster recovery time can vary from a few seconds to a few hours. The time depends on how many files are stored on the appliance or at the cloud provider.

Follow these steps:

1. Follow the procedures in the Whitewater Cloud Storage Appliance User's Guide to import the primary SteelStore appliance configuration file into the secondary SteelStore appliance. Before importing, verify that the Import shared data only check box is selected.

   Important! Once the import process completes, the SteelStore system may display a prompt to restart the storage optimization service. Do not restart the storage optimization service.

2. Use SSH to connect to the SteelStore appliance command-line interface.
3. To perform replication recovery of the appliance, issue the following commands:

   whitewater > enable
   whitewater # configure terminal
   whitewater # no service enable
   whitewater # datastore format local
   whitewater # replication recovery enable
   whitewater # service enable
   whitewater # show service
   

   Consider the following:

   • Riverbed changed the product name from Whitewater to SteelStore. The commands are customizable, but may not reflect this change. For more information about these commands, see the Whitewater Cloud Storage Appliance Command-Line Interface Reference Manual.
   • Use the "show service" command to determine when replication should complete.