A system and method is disclosed for preventing the corruption of
networked storage devices during the process of transferring backup data
to a server on the network that has suffered data loss as the result of a
disaster. The system and method include a LUN masking driver that masks
the LUNs of the networked storage devices such that the operating system
of the server cannot access the storage devices. Because the server
cannot access and the networked storage devices, there is no risk of
corruption resulting from access conflicts.