Configuring Remote Boot - US Robotics USR8700 User Manual

can only enter ASCII characters whose code values are less than 128.
4. Click Change Password.
5. When the confirmation message appears, click OK.
The user must provide this password when recovering a disk from this storage system using the recov-
ery CD or when remotely booting from a backup on the storage system.

Configuring Remote Boot

Normally, when you enable remote boot for a client computer (as described in
page 110), no additional action is necessary on the storage system. However, if you need to remotely boot
one computer from another computer's backup, you must change the MAC address associated with the
other computer's backup to that computer's MAC address. For example, if Computer1 has been infected
by a virus, and all of its backups are also infected, you might need 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 to Computer1's MAC address.
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 remotely boot only from backups that were created after remote boot was enabled on
the client computer.
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.)
To configure remote boot:
1. In the navigation bar, click Backups.
2. In Computer name within Remote boot, select the name of the computer whose backup you need to
remotely boot from.
3. If you are remotely booting the computer from its own backup, do not change the MAC address. How-
ever, if you are booting a different computer from the selected computer's backup, enter the MAC
address of the NIC of the computer that you need to remotely boot in MAC address.
4. From Backup for booting remotely, select the time and date of the backup that you need to remotely
boot from.
To always boot from the most recent backup, select Latest backup.
An asterisk (*) identifies the backup that will be used for booting remotely.
Note: If the selected backup is deleted to make room for newer backups, the most recent backup will
be used for booting remotely if created after remote boot was enabled on the client computer.
5. Click Apply Boot Info.
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