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Creating a Disaster Recovery Test Plan, Creating Bootable Disks, On Windows 2000

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Creating a Disaster Recovery Test Plan Creating a Disaster Recovery Test Plan As part of disaster recovery preparations you should develop a disaster recovery test plan. To test your plan, complete the following steps: 1. Create a set of disaster preparation materials to be kept off site and be sure you know where they are located. Follow the instructions in the subsequent chapters of this book to complete this step. 2. Set up a test server with a similar configuration to your original server. If any data exists on the hard disk, it is overwritten. 3. Simulate a recovery on your test server by following the instructions in the subsequent chapters of this guide. Creating Bootable Disks Bootable disks for Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 are created in the following ways: ■ On Windows 2000: Create the boot disks for Windows 2000 using the MAKEBT32.EXE command in the Windows 2000 CD BOOTDISK directory. ■ On Windows NT 4.0: The boot disks for Windows NT 4.0 can be created in one of the following ways: - Create the disks using the WINNT32 /OX command in the Windows NT4.0 CD i386 directory. This is the recommended method to create the boot disks for use with the option. - Use the DISKCOPY utility to create copies of the original setup disk that came with the Windows NT 4.0 CD. We recommend that you use the DISKCOPY utility rather than the commands XCOPY or COPY to create these disks. Note: These procedures create disks containing a modified version of the setup software and configuration for a specific machine. If you use the disks created during the CD installation of Windows NT, the disaster recovery process fails. Introducing the Option 1-5

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Creating a Disaster Recovery Test Plan
Introducing the Option
1–5
Creating a Disaster Recovery Test Plan
As part of disaster recovery preparations you should develop a disaster recovery
test plan. To test your plan, complete the following steps:
1.
Create a set of disaster preparation materials to be kept off site and be sure you
know where they are located. Follow the instructions in the subsequent
chapters of this book to complete this step.
2.
Set up a test server with a similar configuration to your original server. If any
data exists on the hard disk, it is overwritten.
3.
Simulate a recovery on your test server by following the instructions in the
subsequent chapters of this guide.
Creating Bootable Disks
Bootable disks for Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 are created in the following
ways:
■
On Windows 2000
: Create the boot disks for Windows 2000 using the
MAKEBT32.EXE command in the Windows 2000 CD BOOTDISK directory.
■
On Windows NT 4.0
: The boot disks for Windows NT 4.0 can be created in one
of the following ways:
–
Create the disks using the WINNT32 /OX command in the Windows
NT4.0 CD i386 directory. This is the recommended method to create the
boot disks for use with the option.
–
Use the DISKCOPY utility to create copies of the original setup disk that
came with the Windows NT 4.0 CD. We recommend that you use the
DISKCOPY utility rather than the commands XCOPY or COPY to create
these disks.
Note:
These procedures create disks containing a modified version of the
setup software and configuration for a specific machine. If you use the disks
created during the CD installation of Windows NT, the disaster recovery
process fails.