Disaster Recovery Plan

The disaster recovery scenario implies that sometimes there are different technical persons managing backup and recovery procedures. Thus the person who performs the recovery may not know the details of where the images are located, which machines they belong to, etc. Acronis Backup for VMware allows you to create a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) that contains simple step-by-step instructions on how to recover data from backup archive in case of system failure. The Disaster Recovery Plan can be sent by e-mail to specified users or saved to specific location/folder.

Disaster Recovery Plan is generated by Acronis Agent and sent after the first backup. A new Disaster Recovery Plan is sent if the backup task is modified or if there are significant changes to the backup contents.

The default value for the Disaster Recovery Plan parameter is “Disabled”.

You can enable the Disaster Recovery Plan in the Default Backup Settings for all backup tasks. Go to Configure -> Backup settings and click Disaster Recovery Plan. You can also set up DRP for any individual backup task at the step 4 of the New backup task wizard. Click More options and go to the Disaster Recovery Plan section.

Select Send disaster recovery plans check box to enable the DRP. Configure the DRP options as follows:

• Enter the destination e-mail address in the E-mail addresses field. You can enter several e-mail addresses separated by semicolons.
• Enter the e-mail subject. The default subject line is Acronis Backup for VMware Notification from Acronis Appliance.
• Enter the outgoing mail server (SMTP) in the SMTP Server field.
• Set the port of the outgoing mail server. By default the port is set to 25.
• If your SMTP server requires authentication, enter User name and Password in the appropriate fields.
• Enter the e-mail sender's name in the From field.
• If necessary, select Use encryption and choose the encryption type - SSL or TLS.
• You can click Send test e-mail message to check if the Disaster Recovery Plan is sent correctly with the specified settings.

Select Upload disaster recovery plans to the following location check box if you would like to keep the DRP copy and Browse the location.