Downloading The Restore Manager; Creating The Rm Usb Key - Dell DR4000 Administrator's Manual

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• Recover Appliance—in a Recover Appliance mode, RM reinstalls the
operating system and attempts to recover the prior system configuration
and the data residing in the containers.
• Factory Reset—in a Factory Reset mode, RM reinstalls the operating
system and resets the system configuration back to original factory state.
Important to note that as a result of a factory reset, all containers and
data in the containers are deleted.
CAUTION:
The Factory Reset mode deletes all DR4000 system data. Factory Reset
mode should only be used when the container data is no longer needed.

Downloading the Restore Manager

The RM runs from a USB boot key containing the RM image, which must
first be downloaded from the Dell support site.
1 From a web browser, navigate to the following Dell website:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads
2 Enter the DR4000 system Service Tag to be directed to the DR4000
system download page.
3 In the Category drop-down list, select IDM.
4 If required, expand the IDM category to list the available IDM download
files.
5 Locate, select, and download the Restore Manager file (in the RM
filename format "DR4000-UM-x.x.x.xxxxx.tag.gz").

Creating the RM USB key

The RM image (.img) file downloaded from the Dell support site must be
transferred to a USB key. The USB key must be 2 GB (Gigabytes) or larger.
Windows USB Image Tools can be used to transfer the RM image provided
that they support the .img file format and can perform a direct block-to-block
device copy to ensure the USB key is bootable.
The following steps can be performed on a Linux/Unix system to transfer the
RM image to the USB key:
1 Copy the downloaded RM image file to a Linux/Unix system.
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