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Chapter 3
Changing the recovery password
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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 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. It cannot contain multi-byte
words. This means you can only enter ASCII character whose code value is less
than 128.
4. Click Change Password.
5. When the confirmation message displays, 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
"Enabling remote
boot"), 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.
Note:
If you try to recover one computer from another computer's backup, both
computers must 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.)
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