Chapter 10

Performing Disaster Recovery with SnapManager

About this chapter

This chapter describes how you can prepare for disaster, and then use SnapManager and either SnapMirror or archiving to restore Exchange databases that were destroyed or compromised because of catastrophic conditions.

Guides you should read and have at hand

In addition to this guide, you should be familiar with the following guides and have them at hand, available for reference during disaster recovery:

For information about how to connect to and use the LUNs stored in a mirrored destination volume, see your SnapDrive documentation.
For information about administering Data ONTAP, see the System Administration Storage Management Guide for your version of Data ONTAP.
For information about data replication using SnapMirror, see the System Administration Data Protection Guide for your version of Data ONTAP.
For detailed information about disaster preparedness and recovery for Exchange 2000 or 2003, see the Disaster Recovery for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server white paper published by Microsoft Corporation.
This document is available on the Microsoft Web site as Knowledge Base Article 326052.
For detailed information about disaster preparedness and recovery for Exchange 5.5, see the Microsoft Exchange 5.5 Disaster Recovery white paper published by Microsoft Corporation.
This document is available on the Microsoft Web site as Knowledge Base Article 185078.
For additional information about disaster recovery in the Microsoft environment, see
- Microsoft Windows documentation
- Microsoft Exchange documentation

Topics in this chapter

This chapter discusses the following topics: