Viewing The Recovery Progress; Starting The Restored Target Server; Repairing Startup Problems - Dell DL4000 User Manual

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c. Under Destination, from the drop-down menu, select the appropriate destination that is the
target volume to perform the bare metal restore of the selected recovery point, and then click
Rollback.
3.
In the RollbackURC confirmation dialog box, review the mapping of the source of the recovery point
and the destination volume for the rollback. To perform the rollback, click Begin Rollback.
WARNING: If you select Begin Rollback, all existing partitions and data on the target drive
will be permanently removed, and replaced with the contents of the selected recovery point,
including the operating system and all data.

Viewing the recovery progress

To view the recovery progress:
1.
After you initiate the rollback process, the Active Task dialog box displays, showing that the rollback
action initiated.
NOTE: This appearance of the Active Task dialog box does not indicate successful completion
of the task.
2.
Optionally, to monitor the rollback task progression, from the Active Task dialog box, click Open
Monitor Window. You can view the status of the recovery as well as the start and end times from the
Monitor Open Task window.
NOTE: To return to the recovery points for the source machine from the Active Task dialog
box, click Close.

Starting the restored target server

To start the restored target server:
1.
Navigate back to the target server, and in the AppAssure Universal Recovery Console interface, click
Reboot to start the machine.
2.
Specify to start Windows normally.
3.
Log on to the machine.
The system is restored to its state prior to the bare metal restore.

Repairing startup problems

Keep in mind that if you restored to dissimilar hardware, you must have injected storage controller, RAID,
AHCI, chipset and other drivers if they are not already on the boot CD. These drivers make it possible for
the operating system to operate all devices on your target server successfully.
To repair startup problems:
1.
If you encounter problems when starting the restored target server, open the Universal Recovery
Console by reloading the boot CD.
2.
In the Universal Recovery Console, click Driver Injection.
3.
In the Driver Injection dialog, click Repair Boot Problems.
The startup parameters in the target server boot record are automatically repaired.
4.
In the Universal Recovery Console, click Reboot.
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