Changing The Recovery Password - US Robotics USR8700 User Manual

page in DiskSafe Express).
If a user needs to recover a disk using the recovery CD or remotely boot from a backup on the storage
system, the user will be prompted for a password. The user provided this password when protecting the
disk. If the user forgets it, you can reset the password using the Web User Interface. (For information about
recovering a disk using the recovery CD, refer to
information about booting remotely, refer to
page 119.)
For booting remotely, you can also specify the MAC address to use (if you need 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 Web
User Interface.

Changing the Recovery Password

To change the recovery password:
1. In the navigation bar, click Backups.
2. In Computer name within Recovery passwords, select the name of the computer whose recovery
password you need to change.
3. In Recovery password, type the password to use.
This password must be 12–16 characters long. It cannot contain multi-byte words. This means that you
"Recovering a System Disk or Partition"
"Recovering a System Disk While Booting Remotely"
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