Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore Testing Help

Realistically, you need some kind of Lab environment, otherwise you're
going to end up with two servers with the same name on your network!

Creating the Lab might not be as hard as you think - just putting
restore-testing hosts into a separate VLAN is a good start.

T.

 
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slanteyes
Sent: Tuesday, 31 July 2007 5:05 PM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restore Testing Help


I have to start testing my O.S. level backups "c drive \systems state"
for all my servers on the network and I have some questions.


This will all be timed 
What I am going to to is get a set of hardware for each version of a
server backup that I have, 

the servers will then be loaded with a O.S., the client software will be
installed. 
Then i will attempt to restore the image to the new machine and see if
it boots up

What precautions or steps should I take so I dont take out the original
server other then doing this on a private lab network.

Other things to consider
I have no down time on the operational network,,so i cannot take down
the real server.
I have no lab envirenment


sorry if this is hard to understand my previous backup guys never tested
any restores and the bosses want to know how long it will take to bring
back a server from the dead and if they will work.

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