Perform DR Restoral

Updated on 03 Feb 2025
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How do I perform DR Restoral with WSC?

WSC offers a critical DR feature, allowing you to restore your metadata and archived footage to your on-premise hardware in case of a server or hard drive failure.

If your server has crashed and needs to be replaced, you will need to install and configure the VMS software, and then install the WSC software on the new machine before being able to perform a DR of your data.

In case of hard drive failure only, that was storing your archived footage, replace the bad hard drive, and you are ready to set up a new source for the DR.

The steps below are for any VMS except Milestone XProtect (as WSC is integrated directly and has its procedures).

Click Add Source.
Specify the new drive and folder where you want to restore your metadata or footage.
Input your Wasabi information, select the bucket where your recordings were stored, and click Apply.
When performing a DR, you will be prompted with the following options to choose an action that needs to be performed on any existing data in the target. Choose one and click OK.

A success message will inform you that the DR has begun.

You will see your existing folder structure created.

All the existing stub files will be reindexed to your file system.

Notes:

Depending on the number of cameras, folders, and recordings you stored, the time to reindex all of your metadata or footage can vary based on the size/amount of files and/or the speed of your ISP.
Upon restoring your metadata and/or archived footage, depending on your VMS software, you may be required to reindex the video files to the VMS database either directly through your VMS software or by using the SQL database.

If you want to test the disaster recovery, always delete the source-pair association (Delete Source) to break the connections with the cloud before deleting any local file. Also, if you delete files in the cloud bucket directly, the Wasabi Surveillance Cloud will not be aware and assume that the data is still there. The Wasabi Surveillance cloud will not replicate these files again and assumes that any local stub files still point to the valid data.

Deleting an Active Source will prompt you to confirm the action. The prompt will also provide the amount of stub files that will become unusable.

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