Dell Replay Manager Version 7.8 Administrator’s Guide

Recovering Data from a Remote Storage Center

Replay Manager is intended to provide only backup and recovery capabilities using individual restore points for Microsoft VSS-enabled applications on the same Storage Center. Replay Manager is not intended to be an end-to-end automated disaster recovery solution.

However, the snapshots created by Replay Manager can be used for disaster recovery at a remote site. Replays on remote sites appear like any other Replay taken with the Storage Center Data Instant Replay feature. These Replays can be replicated using Dell Storage Manager.

Because the Replay Manager application is not used at remote sites, it has no knowledge of the Replays being replicated from the source system, or that Replays now exist on a different storage system at the recovery site.

The Replays created on remote sites outside of the Replay Manager environment can be used by changing the ReadOnly, ShadowCopy, and Hidden attributes for the volume. The following procedure outlines the steps required using the Dell Storage Manager and the DISKPART command. For detailed information about using Storage Center, see the Dell Storage Manager Administrator’s Guide.