Tasks for recovering after hardware failure

The following table outlines the high-level objectives and the tasks to complete each objective.

Table: Tasks for recovering after hardware failure

Objective

Tasks

See Reviewing the prerequisites .

  • Reviewing the prerequisites for a recovery after system failure

See Scenario I: Database and transaction logs volumes are missing.

  • Preparing for the recovery

  • Changing drive letters or mount points of all the snapshot volumes

  • Restoring the database to the point in time

  • Refreshing the snapshot set

See Scenario II: Database volumes missing, transaction logs are available.

  • Preparing for the recovery

  • Removing the drive letter or mount point of the transaction logs volume

  • Changing drive letters or mount points of all the snapshot database volumes

  • Restoring the database to the point in time

    or

    Recovering the database to the point of failure

  • Refreshing the snapshot set

See Refreshing the snapshot set.

  • Understanding your current configuration

  • Choosing the disks for the refreshed snapshot sets.

See Refreshing the snapshot set on the current disks.

  • Reattaching healthy snapshot volumes

  • Creating snapshot mirrors of volumes whose drive letters or mount points were reassigned

  • Creating the refreshed snapshot set

See Moving the production volumes to different disks and refreshing the snapshot set.

  • Reattaching healthy snapshot volumes

  • Creating snapshot mirrors of volumes whose drive letters or mount points were reassigned

  • Adding mirrors to volumes whose drive letters or mount points were reassigned

  • Creating snapshot mirrors of volumes whose drive letters or mount points were reassigned

  • Creating the refreshed snapshot set