9UsingHPOBDR
In this chapter:
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“Compatibility” on page 65
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“What does HP OBDR do?” on page 65
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“Remote disaster recovery (ProLiant servers only)” on page 65
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“Testing for compatibility” on page 66
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“Running HP OBDR”onpage66
Compatibility
HP One-Button Disaster Recovery is a standard feature on all HP StorageWorks Ultrium tape drives.
However,itcanonlybeusedwithspecificconfigurations and will only recover the server to which
the tape dr
ive is directly connected.
To check whether your system (hardware, operating system and backup software) is OBD R -compatible,
please refer to o ur World Wide Web site h
ttp://www.hp.com/go/connect.
For more specific information concerning the benefits of OBD R and the latest new features please refer to
our World Wide Web site h
ttp://www.hp.com/go/obdr.
If your system does not support HP One-Button Disaster Recovery, you can still use your tape drive
normally to back up and restore data. However, you must remember to create a sepa rate set of
emergenc
y recovery disks for your operating system whenever you change your system con figuration.
What does HP OBDR do?
Using just the tape drive and the m ost recent backup cartridge HP OBDR allows you to recover from
the following types of system disaster:
• Hard disk failures, as long as the replacement hard disk is the same size or larger tha n the
original and uses the same interface (for example, replace a SAS hard disk with another SAS disk)
• Hardware failures where the server is replaced by an identical component
• File corruption b ecause of an operating system error
• File corruption because of an application software error
• Viruses that prevent you from booting your system correctly
• User errors that stop you from booting your system correctly
When you run HP One-Button Disaster Recovery, your tape drive goes through the following sequence:
1. It goes into a special disaster recovery mode that enables it to restore your operating system and
reboot. It acts like a bootable CD-ROM. (Your system’s ability to boot from CD-ROM is normally
enabled by default. If you have changed this setting, you will nee d to enable it again. Refer to
your system BIOS manual for further details.)
2. It returns to normal tape drive mode and restores the data.
Remo
te disaster recovery (ProLiant servers only)
The HP Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition (RILOE) on ProLiant ser vers gives the IT Administrator the ability
to completely recover a failed server at a remote location without physically traveling to where the
server resides. The on-site non-technical person need only insert the bootable cartridge into the tape
dri
ve when asked to do so by the administrator.
Ultrium half-height SAS Tape Drives
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