Changing The Recovery Password; Configuring Remote Boot - Intel D39172-003 User Manual

Changing the Recovery Password

Configuring Remote Boot

Note: If you try to recover one computer from another computer's backup, both computers must
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For booting remotely, you can also specify the MAC address to use (if you want to
remotely boot a computer using a different computer's backup) and the backup to boot
from.
In addition, when a user removes protection for a disk, the existing backups are not
deleted. The user can re-use the allocated space for new backups, or you can delete those
backups manually using the Manager.
To change the recovery password:
1. In the navigation bar, click Backups.
2. In the Computer name list in the Recovery passwords group box, select the name of
the computer whose recovery password you want to change.
3. In the Recovery password text box, type the password to use.
This password must be 12-16 characters long.
4. Click Change Password
5. When the confirmation message appears, click OK.
The user must provide this password when recovering a disk from this storage system
using the Recovery CD or when remotely booting from a backup on the storage
system.
Normally, when you enable remote boot for a client computer (as described in
Remote Boot" on page 111), no additional action is necessary on the storage system.
However, if you want to remotely boot one computer from another computer's backup,
you must change the MAC address. For example, if Computer1 has been infected by a
virus, and all of its backups are also infected, you might want to boot Computer1 from one
of Computer2's backups and recover that disk to Computer1. To do this, you must change
the MAC address associated with Computer2.
have identical hardware. Otherwise, the recovered files will not operate properly.
You can also specify which backup to remotely boot from. By default, you always boot
from the latest backup. (You can boot from an earlier backup,but no matter which backup
you boot from, you can recover only the latest backup.)
To configure remote boot:
1. In the navigation bar, click Backups.
2. In the Computer name list in the Remote boot group box, select the name of the
computer whose backup you want to remotely boot from.
3. If you're remotely booting the computer from its own backup, do not change the
MAC address. However, if you're booting a different computer from the selected
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