Dell EMC Avamar for Windows Servers 19.7 User Guide

Restoring an entire cluster

Follow the steps in this section to restore an entire cluster.

1. Shut down all cluster nodes.
2. Restore one node in the cluster:
   1. Perform an offline BMR of the node. BMR of Windows clients provides instructions.
   2. Reboot the node.
   3. If required, restart the cluster service.
3. Restore the remaining nodes in the cluster:
   NOTE You must perform an offline BMR of all nodes. If you reboot a node by using the old system disk before you restore the node, then the cluster information from that node replaces the information on all nodes.
   1. Perform an offline BMR of each node. BMR of Windows clients provides instructions.
   2. Reboot each node.
   3. If you applied any Windows service packs or hotfixes to the cluster nodes after the backup, then reapply the service packs or hotfixes to the restored cluster nodes to bring them to the same service pack level.
   4. If required, rejoin the nodes to the cluster.
   NOTE BMR restores the System State and critical disks on the cluster nodes. After BMR, use the Windows File System plug-in to restore file system data, non-critical disks, and critical disks on shared storage. Also, use application plug-ins to restore application data.