Recovering/Restoring (Windows Pc) - Western Digital Sentinel DX4000 Administrator's Manual

Backup Using the Dashboard
1. Click the Computers and Backups icon on the navigation bar to display a list of
computers and servers on your network:
2. Select the computer you want to back up.
3. Click Start a Backup for the Computer in the Task pane. For further instructions, see
Microsoft Online Help.

Recovering/Restoring (Windows PC)

The WD Sentinel server provides two options for recovering lost or corrupted data:
 Restore a Computer—Restores all the data and settings of a Windows PC
computer or a storage device connected to the WD Sentinel server.
 Recover File/Folders —Recovers individual files or folders.
Restoring Windows PC Computers (Bare Metal Restore)
This feature restores a Windows PC connected to your WD Sentinel server. Should your
computer experience an unfavorable event such as a hard drive crash, the Recovery feature
reinstalls the operating system, software applications, and all the data. This type of recovery
is known as a bare-metal restore; it recovers everything that was on the computer when it
was backed up.
Best Practice: You may need some network drivers. Save them to a USB flash
drive.
To restore a Windows PC that has been backed up:
1. Click Computers and Backups
2. Select the computer that was backed up.
3. Insert a USB flash device into one of the WD Sentinel server's USB ports.
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on the navigation bar.
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