As part of your disaster-recovery preparation, ensure that you have access to reference material about how to use LUNs, about how to administer Data ONTAP, data replication by using SnapMirror, about disaster preparedness and recovery for Microsoft Exchange server, and so on.
You should have the following guides available for reference during disaster recovery:
- For information about how to connect to and use the LUNs stored in a mirrored destination volume, see SnapDrive documentation.
- For information about administering Data ONTAP, see the Data ONTAP Administration Guide for your version of Data ONTAP.
- For information about data replication by using SnapMirror, see the Data ONTAP Data Protection Tape Backup and Recovery Guide for your version of Data ONTAP.
- For detailed information about disaster preparedness and recovery for Microsoft Exchange server, see the following documents published by Microsoft Corporation:
- For Exchange Server 2003, see Exchange Server 2003 Disaster Recovery Operations Guide. This TechNet guide is available on the Microsoft Web site.
- For Exchange Server 2007, the Help published in the TechNet Web site is useful. The section that discusses disaster recovery is available in the in the TechNet Library.
- For more information about disaster recovery in a Microsoft environment, see Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Exchange documentation sets.
