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7.9.4. Recovering a System Disk Using While Booting Remotely

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If your computer meets the necessary prerequisites,
you can remotely boot it from a backup on your Ether-
net Disk RAID and recover your system disk or parti-
tion. You can recover only your most recent backup.
Prerequistites
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Before you recover a disk while booting remotely,
the following criteria must be met:
The computer that you're remotely booting must
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be in the same subnet as the Ethernet Disk RAID.
Remote boot must be enabled for that computer (as
described in section
At least one backup must have been performed after
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remote boot was enabled.
The network must have a DHCP server, or your
Ethernet Disk RAID must be configured to act as
a DHCP server (as described in section
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If you plan to remotely boot your computer from
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a different computer's backup, you must enter the
MAC address of your computer's network interface
card (NIC) on the Ethernet Disk RAID. For more
information, refer to section
mote Boot.
If you want to remotely boot from any backup other
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than the most recent one, you must select the desired
backup on the Ethernet Disk RAID. For more infor-
mation, refer to section
Boot.
(Firmware version 1.4)
7.8.1. Enabling Remote Boot).
5.7.5. Net-
4.4.2. Configuring Re-
4.4.2. Configuring Remote
Protecting Local Disks
If you replaced the
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original hard disk, the new disk must be at least
as large as the original disk. In addition, the sys-
tem to which you are recovering the data must be
identical to the original system. For example, if
the original system had a particular type of net-
work adapter, the system to which you are recov-
ering the data must have the exact same type of
network adapter. Otherwise, the recovered files
will not operate properly.
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