Upgrading The Firmware - Acer Altos EasyStore User Manual

Chapter 3

Upgrading the firmware

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The Firmware page displays the current version of the firmware that is installed on
your storage system. It also allows you to upgrade it if newer firmware becomes
available.
For additional security, you must enter your administrator password in order to
upgrade the firmware.
Caution:
When you upgrade the firmware, the storage system restarts. Access to the
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Manager is temporarily interrupted, and users will not be able to access the
shared folders during this process. If users have files open on the storage
system, data might be lost. Be sure to have all users save their changes and
close any open files before you upgrade the firmware.
Restarting the storage system when a backup is occurring will not have any
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adverse effect; the backup will resume automatically when the storage server
resumes operation. However, restarting the storage system when a disk is being
recovered can potentially corrupt the user's operating system, and the user will
have to recover the system disk using the recovery CD (or, if the system disk
was not protected, re-install the operating system). Be sure to upgrade the
firmware only when recovery is not occurring.
If you upgrade from version 1.0 or 1.1, the personal folders (that is, the home
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folders) that were automatically created for each Windows or Mac OS X user
will be deleted. If you want to retain the data in those folders, you must copy it
to another location before upgrading the firmware.
To upgrade the firmware:
1. In the navigation bar, click Advanced.
2. In the left pane, click Firmware.
3. In the Firmware file text box, enter the path and file name for the firmware
package (such as D:\fs-bc - 1.2-b507.pkg), or click Browse and select the file
from the displayed list.
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