Recovering the entire cluster using a manual disaster recovery procedure

Last published : Apr 02, 2026
As part of the manual recovery process, you must reinstall Windows, including the last service pack applied before the failure.
See About restoring Oracle resources.
To recover the entire cluster manually
  1. On the first node you want to recover, reinstall Windows, including the last service pack applied before the failure.
  2. On the other nodes you want to recover, reinstall Windows, including the last service pack applied before the failure.
  3. Reinstall the cluster services and bring the cluster online.
Do the following:
  • If you are recovering a Microsoft Cluster Server, after booting the nodes in a cluster, make sure that the drive letters match the original cluster configuration. If the original configuration does not match, then to a certain extent, you can control the hard drive numbering scheme that Windows devises by using the Disk Administrator.
  • If you are recovering a Microsoft Cluster Server, use the Cluster Wizard to reinstall Backup Exec on the cluster. You must use the same settings used during the initial installation.
See Installing Backup Exec on a Microsoft Cluster Server.
  1. Catalog the media in the cluster.
  2. On the Backup and Restore tab on the active node, click Restore.
  3. Restore last full backup sets made of the active node, and then restore the System State.
  4. If you are recovering a Microsoft Cluster Server, select the Restore cluster quorum option in the Restore Wizard.
  5. Start the restore operation.
  6. When the restore has completed, reboot the active node.
  7. For each node that you need to recover, repeat step 5 through step 9.
  8. After all nodes are recovered, restore the Backup Exec data files, and all other data files, to the shared disks.
  9. To restore a database to the shared disks, use the appropriate Backup Exec agent.
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