{"id":1160,"date":"2012-09-19T10:59:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T08:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2015-12-10T19:43:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T18:43:30","slug":"recover-cell-server-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/recover-cell-server-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Recover Cell Server &#8211; Reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In previous posts it is documented how to recover a server using Enhanced Automated Disaster Recovery Option. Tis applies to the Cell Server too, as this server might be the most important server in a case of a disaster. For the cell server there are several options available to do a fast recovery. The following steps apply to cell server for all supported operating systems and the steps are only 1 possible way for recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The most important information when a recovery of the cell server is required will be the information on which media is the backup of the internal database. With 2 settings you make sure the information is available when needed (if copied off the cell server per scheduled task). First you have to edit the file <code>rdmserver.ini<\/code> and to enable the parameter <code>archiving=1<\/code>. In this case DP will write the information regarding the backup of IDB to an additional file. Second step is to change file <code>global<\/code> and to enable the parameter <code>RecoveryIndexDir=PathToBackupDir<\/code>. After saving both files you need to restart the DP services. With the first backup of the IDB information regarding the backup is written to <code>obrindex.dat<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>In this file you now have the information which media was used during the backup and also some additional information regarding the drive used during the backup.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/obrindex.dat_.jpg\" alt=\"obrindex.dat\" width=\"537\" height=\"107\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An additional Step to prepare for DR is the export of the devices. This can be done with the tool omnidownload. The command will generate some text files to be used to create devices in case of disaster using the command omniupload. Of course you can use the tool &#8220;SaveDevices&#8221; to automate this task (can be found in download section).<\/p>\n<p>In case of a disaster in general you can follow the steps below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Change \/ repair defect hardware<\/li>\n<li>Install operating system<\/li>\n<li>Installation Data Protector as cell server<\/li>\n<li>Create new devices to be able to import IDB into IDB<\/li>\n<li>Import media with IDB backup<\/li>\n<li>Restore of IDB<\/li>\n<li>Restore of all other settings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As written above these steps are only one way to recover the cell server. In the articles EADR W2K and Recover Cell Server additional ways using SRD \/ omniiso are described.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In previous posts it is documented how to recover a server using Enhanced Automated Disaster Recovery Option. Tis applies to the Cell Server too, as this server might be the most important server in a case of a disaster. For the cell server there are several options available to do a fast recovery. The following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[86,156],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.8","language":"en","enabled_languages":["en","de"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"de":{"title":false,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28cjj-iI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3016,"url":"https:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/prepare-and-execute-eadr-cell-server-on-windows-2012-r2-data-protector-9-06\/","url_meta":{"origin":1160,"position":0},"title":"Prepare and execute EADR &#8211; Cell Server on Windows 2012 R2 and Data Protector 9.06","date":"13. May 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"{:en} In the past I often informed about the free EADR feature in Data Protector to recover clients and cell server. The last time I wrote an article in 2014 including two small scripts to get things prepared and automated - see https:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/eadr-cell-server-dp-8-1x-windows-2012-r2\/. However, the batch files got broken due\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;HowTo&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"EADR_23","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/EADR_23.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2190,"url":"https:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/eadr-tape-block-size\/","url_meta":{"origin":1160,"position":1},"title":"EADR and Tape Block Size","date":"1. January 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"{:en}In older articles I often wrote about Bare Metal Recovery, a feature included in Data Protector without any additional costs and called Enhanced Automated Disaster Recovery (EADR) - see https:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/?s=eadr. To recover the Cell Server (see link) I always told to use tape devices with a block size of 64K.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;HowTo&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":222,"url":"https:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/recover-cell-server\/","url_meta":{"origin":1160,"position":2},"title":"Recover Cell Server","date":"1. November 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"{:en}No translation for this article available.{:} {:de}In einem fr\u00fcheren Beitrag habe ich berichtet wie man einen Windows 2003 Server mit der Enhanced Automated Disaster Recovery Option wiederherstellt. Was ist aber mit dem Cell server selbst? Auch hierf\u00fcr muss man sich entsprechend vorbereiten. Die nachfolgenden Schritte gelten prinzipiell f\u00fcr Cell Server\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;HowTo&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":313,"url":"https:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/eadr-mit-windows-2008-r2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1160,"position":3},"title":"EADR with Windows 2008 R2","date":"21. January 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"{:de}In einen fr\u00fcheren Artikel hatte ich \u00fcber die Wiederherstellung eines Windows 2003 Servers mit Data Protector berichtet. Nachdem Windows 2008 auch immer mehr in Rechenzentren betrieben wird zeige ich nachfolgend die Wiederherstellung eines Windows 2008 R2 Servers mit Data Protector und der Enhanced Automated Disaster Recovery Funktion. Vorbereitung: In der\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;HowTo&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1947,"url":"https:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/eadr-cell-server-dp-8-1x-windows-2012-r2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1160,"position":4},"title":"EADR for Cell Server &#8211; DP 8.1X on Windows 2012 R2","date":"4. April 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"{:en}With Data Protector 8.XX the process to create disaster recovery images has been changed. Since the new version, the backup of the internal database is separated from the filesystem backup of the cell server. Hence, the \"makeiso.cmd\" (see https:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/recover-cell-server-with-enhanced-automated-disaster-recovery\/) is no longer working. With the separation it is necessary to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;HowTo&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":431,"url":"https:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/recover-cell-server-with-enhanced-automated-disaster-recovery\/","url_meta":{"origin":1160,"position":5},"title":"Recover Cell Server with Enhanced Automated Disaster Recovery","date":"29. March 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"{:en}In article EADR with Windows 2008 R2 I described how to use Data Protector EADR for a Windows 2008 R2 server. I also described in former articles that you should be prepared when your Cell Server crashs. 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