DR Recovery

Prerequisites

• At least one recovery plan has been created in the system.
• The status of the recovery plan is Ready, Clear completed, Backup and restore fail, or Backup and restore are complete.
• The relevant protected groups of the recovery plan have available copies.
• If the information about storage devices, hosts, or VMs is modified at the production or DR site, manually refresh the information. For details, see Refreshing Resource Information.
• The VM name can contain a maximum of 50 characters.
• On an all-in-one backup network, only a copy at the production site can be used to restore VMs.

Context

When the storage resources or protected objects changed in the current time and snapshot copied time. The recovery operation description, see Copy-based Recovery and Risk Handling Measures.

In the recovery plan details area, click the Protected Object tab, and then click View. You can view the changed resources information between current time and snapshot copied time.

Procedure

1. On the menu bar, select Utilization > Data Restore.
2. Select the recovery plan that you want to use for data rollback. Then click Backup and Restore in the operation area.
3. Select the duplicate that you want to rollback in the Backup and Restore dialog. Then click Backup and Restore.
   

   • When the storage device model is OceanStor V3/V5 or OceanStor Dorado V3, you can set the restore rate.
   • VM restoration does not support RDM disks.
   • VMs cannot be restored to a specified resource pool.
   • During VM restoration, whether the virtual network configurations are consistent is not checked.
   • VMs cannot be restored using HyperCDP or snapshot second-level snapshots.
   • After reprotection, existing copies at the current production site cannot be used to restore VMs.

4. In the Warning dialog box that is displayed, read the content of the dialog box carefully and select I have read and understood the consequences associated with performing this operation.
5. Click OK.

Result

After the data rollback starts, you can view the execution process and result. If the task is failed, you can solve the problem and execute the task again.