Backup Or Recovery Of The System Disk; Creating A Backup Image Of The System Disk - R&S SpycerBox Cell Hardware Manual

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5.5 Backup or Recovery of the System Disk

The R&S DVS system provides a USB flash drive that can be used to

back up or restore the operating system on the system hard disk. With

it you can, for example, set the system disk back to its manufacturing

state. Once selected as a boot device, it will launch a Live Linux which

in turn will either back up or restore the system hard disk. The following

sections describe how to create a backup image or perform a recovery

of the system disk.

5.5.1 Creating a Backup Image of the System Disk

The following describes the steps to make a backup image of the sys-

tem hard disk and save it to the USB flash drive:

Selecting wrong source device

For example, selecting the wrong source device could lead to a full

storage space and a termination of the process.

Do not execute any commands if you are not sure about the

correct source and target device.

To complete the loading of the DVS Rescue environment some user en-

tries are required. For this follow the instructions given on the screen.

The loading of the environment and the process itself will both try to ini-

tialize hardware that may not be present on your system. Any error mes-

sages displayed during loading/initialization, e.g. Failed or Warning,

can be disregarded. The backup/recovery process should work nonethe-

less.

The storage space on the USB is limited. The number of backup images

that can be stored on the drive, besides the R&S DVS recovery image ex

factory available, depends on the size of the image files. If the process

fails, the storage drive may be full. However, an already created image

can be overwritten when assigning the same name to it.

If appropriate, disconnect all Fibre Channel cables and all exter-

nally connected storage devices from the system.

Connect the USB flash drive to the system (see section "Overview

of the Rear" on page 2-8).

Turn on or restart the R&S DVS system and at the indicated

moment during start-up press [F11] on your keyboard to enter the

boot menu.

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