About Simplified Disaster Recovery
Simplified Disaster Recovery (SDR) is automatically installed with Backup Exec so that you can perform disaster recovery on Windows computers on which the Agent for Windows is installed. By default, Backup Exec is configured to back up all of the critical system components that you need to perform a disaster recovery.
After a computer's critical system components are backed up, use the Create Simplified Disaster Recovery Disk Wizard to create a Simplified Disaster Recovery disk image. Use the recovery disk to perform disaster recovery of the computers that are backed up.
When you use SDR to perform a recovery, Backup Exec uses the system-level information from the SDR backup to rebuild the server and restore it to a functional state. Recovery includes a bare metal or dissimilar hardware restore operation.
Through integration with the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), the SDR backups include all selected elements, even if they are components of the active operating system or are in an open state. VSS integration ensures that the backups are in a consistent state and have been properly placed into a quiescent state when the backup occurs.
Simplified Disaster Recovery is available only for servers on which the Agent for Windows is installed and that are backed up through the Agent for Windows. You must purchase the Agent for Windows separately, and then install it on the remote computers that you want to protect.
The Simplified Disaster Recovery feature now requires the Microsoft Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) to create a Simplified Disaster Recovery disk image (.iso).
Note: After the Backup Exec upgrade, customers must customize the existing SDR ISOs to make the ISO compatible with the Backup Exec release to which they have upgraded.
For information about the best practices to use Backup Exec Simplified Disaster Recovery (SDR), refer to Backup Exec Best Practices.
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