Enabling Or Disabling Remote Boot - Intel D39172-003 User Manual

Protecting Local Disks

Enabling or Disabling Remote Boot

Caution: It is strongly recommended that you determine whether or not your computer supports the
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If you need to recover your system disk or partition, using the recovery CD is
recommended (as described in
page 117). However, if your computer does not support the recovery CD but does support
the PXE protocol, you can remotely boot your computer from a backup on the storage
system and then recover your system disk. (If you're not sure if your computer supports
the PXE protocol, try to enable remote boot. If your computer does not support the PXE
protocol, an error message will appear during this process.)
recovery CD before a system failure occurs. To do this, perform steps 1 through 3 in
"Recovering a System Disk Using the Recovery CD" on page 117
Mode to confirm that at least one network interface card is supported.
If your computer does not support the recovery CD, you must enable remote boot before a
system failure occurs. Once your system has failed, you cannot enable remote boot.
If your computer does not support either the recovery CD or the PXE protocol, gather
your hardware information (as described in step 4 in
the Recovery CD" on page
updated recovery CD or a new driver that will make your computer compatible with your
existing recovery CD.
You can enable remote boot only if the following criteria have been met:
•
Microsoft Windows* was installed on the first partition of the first disk in your
computer.
•
Intel® Client Backup and Recovery was installed on that system disk.
•
You protected your system disk or partition.
•
You are accessing the computer directly rather than using Remote Desktop.
•
If Intel® Client Backup and Recovery was installed on the same disk but a different
partition than Windows, the entire system disk must be protected rather than each
individual partition. If you protected each partition individually, remove protection
for those partitions (as described in
the entire disk (as described in
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You must wait until the initial backup of your system disk or partition has completed
before you enable remote boot.
When you enable remote boot, your network connection will be temporarily interrupted. It
is recommended that you enable remote boot when this will not adversely affect any
network applications that you might be running.
If remote boot is successfully enabled, a new backup is created automatically.
"Recovering a System Disk Using the Recovery CD" on
117) and send it to your vendor. You might be able to obtain an
"Removing Protection" on page
"Protecting Your Disks" on page
Intel® Entry Storage System SS4000-E User Guide
and use Diagnostic
"Recovering a System Disk Using
126) and protect
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