Creating a recovery file

This topic describes how to create a file for disaster recovery.

Prerequisites

You must have Operator or Administrator privileges to perform this task.

Steps

  1. Click Maintain System→Disaster Recovery from the My Work frame.
  2. Click Create from the drop-down box in the table header.
  3. Click Go.
  4. Select the check box to Create a new recovery file or select the check box for a Forced Create, which will overwrite an existing file.
    Attention: When you overwrite an existing file, metadata recovery of items from that file may not be possible.
  5. Type a name for the newly created file, or select the Existing Recovery File to overwrite from the drop-down menu.
  6. Click OK to confirm the creation of the new file or to overwrite the existing one.
  7. Click Maintain System→Disaster Recovery from the My Work frame to verify that the recovery file was created.

Parent topic: Managing disaster recovery

Related concepts
Cluster

Related tasks
Checking metadata

Related reference
Create Recovery File panel
mkdrfile

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