To recover the entire cluster manually

1. On the first node you want to recover, reinstall Windows, including the last service pack applied before the failure.

   See Manual disaster recovery of Windows computers.

2. On the other nodes you want to recover, reinstall Windows, including the last service pack applied before the failure.

3. Reinstall the cluster services and bring the cluster online.

   Do the following:

   • If you are recovering a Veritas Cluster Server, install the Storage Foundation for Windows High Availability server components, which include Volume Manager, and then use Volume Manager to create disk groups and volumes that match the original cluster configuration.

   • If you are recovering a Microsoft Cluster Server, after booting the nodes in a cluster, make sure that the drive letters match the original cluster configuration. If the original configuration does not match, then to a certain extent, you can control the hard drive numbering scheme that Windows devises by using the Disk Administrator.

4. Do one of the following:

   • If you are recovering a Veritas Cluster Server, re-install Backup Exec.

     See Installing Backup Exec with the CASO option on a Veritas Cluster Server.

   • If you are recovering a Microsoft Cluster Server, use the Cluster Wizard to reinstall Backup Exec for Windows Servers on the cluster. You must use the same settings used during the initial installation.

     See Installing Backup Exec on a Microsoft Cluster Server.

5. Catalog the media in the cluster.

6. On the Backup Exec navigation bar on the active node, click Restore.

7. In the Restore selections pane, select the last full backup sets made of the active node, and then select System State.

8. Do one of the following:

   • If you are recovering a Veritas Cluster Server, proceed to step 9.

   • If you are recovering a Microsoft Cluster Server, on the Properties pane, under Settings, click Advanced and then select the Restore cluster quorum option (this option must be selected).

9. Start the restore operation.

10. When the restore has completed, reboot the active node.

11. For each node that you need to recover, repeat step 6 through step 10.

12. After all nodes are recovered, restore the Backup Exec data files, and all other data files, to the shared disks.

13. To restore a database to the shared disks, use the appropriate Backup Exec agent.