Disaster Backup Components

[abradaxis]

When preparing for disadter recovery,you are instructed to include the iso set associated with the last backup and any other snapshots. But why don't you also include the "backup set," usually instored on drive c, as a file to back up onto the bootable CD. If your drive is ever destroyed you then don't have to rebuild the backup set, which seems a necessary part of DR. Wouldn't it be better off being written to the bootable CD in every case? As ususal, any help would be greatly appreciated.

[natew]

Hi

 

Making a copy of your catalog file to another CD is a wise move. Do this with a standard burning program - not Retrospect. That way the disk will always be readable even without Retrospect installed.

 

This will save you from having to rebuild the catalog file if your hard disk crashes.

 

Thanks

Nate

[abradaxis]

Thanks. That answer makes sense. Actually, I was using the process during disaster recovery, and adding it to the Nero file creation procedure of the bootable CD. However, upon reflections, it's probably a good idea whenever you create a backup set. Do I have this correct?

[natew]

Hi

 

A disaster recovery CD can be used with any backup set at any time. You only need to create a new CD if the computer hardware or drivers have changed dramatically.

 

Here is what I would do:

Create a disaster recovery CD

Periodically make a copy of your catalog files to CD

 

If you need to run disaster recovery you will have both handy. You can do an "update existing catalog" operation to bring the catalog from your CD up to date before you run the system restore.

 

Thanks

Nate