The alert “Simplified Disaster Recovery Disk is not created" appears in Backup Exec when a full backup job completes successfully
Problem
V-79-57758 - Simplified Disaster Recovery Disk is not created. Backup Exec generates the following warning alert after a full backup job completes successfully until you create the Simplified Disaster Recovery (SDR) disk image
Error Message
V-79-57758 - Warning alert “Simplified Disaster Recovery Disk is not created “
Solution
Click 'Respond OK' to clear the message. This clears the message, but the warning alert will appear again if an SDR disk is not created until when the next full SDR-enabled backup job completes.
Create a Simplified Disaster Recovery (SDR) Disk:
Refer https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100033528 for more details on SDR disk creation.
Note: Create Disaster Recovery Disk Wizard cannot be run from a Backup Exec server that runs on an operating system that is previous to version Windows Server 2008.
If the Backup Exec server does not run on Windows Server 2008 or later, install the Create Disaster Recovery Disk Wizard on another computer that does run Windows Server 2008 or later. Use the Backup Exec installation media to install the Create Simplified Disaster Recovery Disk Wizard and the Remote Administration Console on a standalone server that runs Windows Server 2008 or later.
The Create Simplified Disaster Recovery Disk Wizard guides you through the download and installation of the Microsoft Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK). The ADK installation defaults are already selected. Veritas recommends to use these defaults. The recovery disk can then be created by connecting to a remote Backup Exec server, as guided by the wizard.
After successful creation of an SDR disk, the warning alert should no longer appears when the subsequent full SDR-enabled backup jobs is performed.
If you do not wish to create the SDR disk at this time and do not want see this alert anymore, it can be turned off:
- Go to the Backup Exec console
- Click the Backup Exec button
- Select Configuration and Settings - Alerts and Notifications - Alert Categories
- Click on Simplified Disaster Recovery Warning
- Uncheck 'Enable alerts for this category' - click OK