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Legacy Disaster Recovery

Important!   Procedures in this chapter are for Unitrends systems running pre-7.0 versions. For systems running version 7.0 and higher, see the Disaster Recovery chapter.

Protecting an organization’s data and IT infrastructure has never been more important. This document describes the steps the Unitrends customer needs to take when planning and implementing a disaster recovery strategy. This strategy includes decisions that are best made long before a failure occurs.

An effective disaster recovery strategy consists of four aspects:

1 The decision to archive or vault
2 Preparation
3 Restoring to a physical or virtual system
4 Restoring backup data to clients

See the following topics for details:

• Archive or vault
• Preparation
• Restoring the system
• Scenario 1: Restoring a backup system
• Scenario 2: Recovering from a corrupt backup device
• Scenario 3: Recovering from a corrupt RAID
• Scenario 4: Recovering a corrupt internal drive
• Additional requirements for restoring to a virtual system
• Storage setup
• Disaster recovery from vault
• Automatic disaster recovery from vault
• Disaster recovery from archive
• Post-recovery considerations
• Restoring backup data to the clients