Testing Restoral

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Not sure if something has been posted about this. If it has already, please let me know the post link.

What I'd like to know is what most people out there are using to test their system restores? We do an online image of 2 of our servers once a month, and then do daily data/exchange backups with Backup Exec (May look to change this to Acronis as well, since our version is no longer supported).

Essentially I'd like to test the restoral of the system images that we are creating once a month. Are you using HW that is sitting on the side, just for retoral purposes? Are you using VM? If using VM, is all that is required is to establish a system with the same partitioning, and space? If we're using RAID1/RAID5 on our live system, we don't need it on our test recovery system, correct? As long as we are running Universal Restore and have the drivers for the test system.

Basically there can be 2 scenarios. Either we go to restore back to our current HW, or we have to go to new HW. There's no way I'd be able to get a configuration of our current system HW as backup, so ultimately the testing will be left to differing system.

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Lun, 06/07/2010 - 19:23
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Hello Mike,

Thank you for your interesting question. I will be happy to assist you.

The most important factor in disaster recovery scenario is to be able to bring your system back online in a minimum amount of time. The factors that can affect this are, hardware issues with the recovery CD, ease of access to the image and since you are using Acronis Universal Restore, the availability of correct drivers to use with it.

To be absolutely certain that the recovery CD will support your hardware, is to boot your hardware from it and see how it detects your hard drives, network cards and external storage devices. There is no need to restore, but, you will know in advance that there are no issues and act accordingly if there. For example, your current hardware can be tested this way and in case of any issues, you can contact our support so that we resolve the problem in advance. After that, in a real disaster recovery situation you will have no issues with restoring.

The same applies if you are planning to migrate to dissimilar hardware.

Using a VM to test a restore is a good idea from a usability point of view. You can use the software, see how it works and emulate the hard drive environment that exists in your hardware environment. Of course, this will never substitute a real hardware machine.

I can recommend the following articles from our Knowledge Base that can assist you with using our software:

 - Downloading Acronis Bootable Media

 - Restoring to Dissimilar Hardware with Acronis True Image Echo Universal Restore

 - Acronis True Image: Resizing Partitions during Restore to Larger/Smaller Hard Drive

 - Downloading the Latest Build of Acronis Software

If you have additional questions or any issues, please let me know.

Thank you.

Gio, 06/10/2010 - 12:28
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