Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

When a system failure occurs which damages Storage Pools, perform the following steps as recommended by Microsoft to perform a BMR recovery to a new host. In the case of a complete system failure, a Storage Pool may not exist on the target host. There can only be physical disks. Some of these disks are required to create Storage Pools.

Before beginning Windows BMR wizard, physically remove from the target recovery computer any physical disks reserved for storage pools. This manual step is required because the Windows BMR wizard does not have any option to exclude the disks.

To recover Storage Spaces to a new host, perform the following steps:

1. Boot the host with the Windows BMR image.
2. Recover only the critical volumes.
3. Reboot the host.
4. Attach physical disks that are reserved for Storage Pools.
5. Use Windows Server Manager or Powershell Cmdlets to configure the Storage Pools.
6. Perform a volume or file recovery of the Storage Spaces volumes.
7. Perform a volume or file recovery of other volumes on physical disks.