Overview
A Static Mirror Image is stored on disk and is a duplicate of the source disk. The target must be an Image Storage Device as defined within UltraBac.
Backup
Defining a Target Storage Device
To perform a Static Mirror Image Backup, a target storage device must be defined. The target disk must be free space (not partitioned, not formatted and not assigned a drive letter) before defining it as an Image Storage Device. The target disk must also be of adequate size and similar geometry. Define an Image Storage Device.
Select a storage device.
Creating a Disk Image Backup Set
When creating a Disk Image Backup Set, load the set and select the disk or disks that are to be included in the set. Give the set a unique description and save the set.
Note: If all partitions of a disk are not selected, the set will become a Partition Level Image Set.
Performing an Ad-hoc or Scheduled Backup
At this point, either a ad-hoc or scheduled backup may be performed.
See UBQ: UBQ000109 Static Mirror (Disk) Image Backup
See UBQ: UBQ000055 Performing a Single Partition Ad-hoc Backup
UBDR Utility's Static Mirror Image Function
- The copy disk/partition procedure provides a complete sector-by-sector static mirror image backup of the source disk/partition to an attached target disk/partition. The target disk becomes an exact duplicate of the source disk. In case of disaster the user may simply switch the boot SCSI ID to the mirrored drive.
See User Manual: UBDR: UltraBac Disaster Recovery
See UBQ: UBQ000183 - UltraBac Disaster Recovery (UBDR) Static Mirror Image
Creating SADR (Stand Alone Disaster Recovery) Floppies/CD-ROM
In order to restore a Boot Disk Image, we recommend the user create UltraBac's SADR Floppies/CD-ROM on the computer where the restore will be performed and before the boot disk fails. This is not mandatory however, so when creating UltraBac's SADR Floppies/CD-ROM on a different computer that does not have the necessary drivers installed, the user must copy these drivers over to the third SADR floppy manually and rename them.
NOTE: The "MakeDisk.exe" utility, which provides for
the creation of the SADR diskettes, will not be included in UltraBac 6.3
and above, in favor of the UltraBac Disaster Recovery (UBDR) utility.
See User Manual: UBDR: UltraBac Disaster Recovery
See UBQ: UBQ000157 Creating SADR Floppies on a Non-Target Computer.
See UBQ: UBQ000026 Supporting Proprietary & Multiple Drivers with Stand Alone (Recovery) Floppies.
See UBQ: UBQ000057 Creating SADR (Stand Alone Disaster Recovery) Floppies Intel & Alpha
See UBQ: UBQ000127 OBDR (One Button Disaster Recovery)
See UBQ: UBQ000135 Using SADR (Stand Alone Disaster Recovery) CD-ROM Disk Intel & Alpha
Restore
There are several ways to recover by using an image hard drive Change SCSI BIOS, Replace failed hard drive with image hard drive (e.g. swap SCSI connectors), or copy the image hard drive to another hard drive.
The image hard drive can be copied to another hard drive in several ways which include: using the SADR Floppies/CD-ROM, or performing a Static Mirror Image Backup with the image hard drive as the source and the new hard drive as the target.
Boot Disk
See UBQ: UBQ000060 Static Mirror Image Recovery
Additional Information:
Non-Boot (Data) Disk
A non-boot disk image can be restored the same ways as a boot disk image with the addition of being able to use the Integrated GUI.
When performing a Disk Image restore and using the Integrated GUI, the target disk must be free space (not partitioned, not formatted and not assigned a drive letter) before the restore and must be of adequate size and similar geometry.
Preferred Method:
Optional Method:
Additional Information: