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Chapter
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7 . Specify whether or not to back up your disk as soon as you finish the wizard by
selecting or clearing the Back up now check box, and then click Next .
If you clear this option, the disk will be backed up at the next scheduled time or
the
next time you perform a manual backup.
Note: Be sure to back up your disk or partition before you try to recover
it
using the recovery CD (as described in “Recovering a system disk using the
recovery CD”).
8 . If you ever need to recover your disk using the recovery CD or remotely boot
from a backup on the storage system, you’ll be prompted for a password . In the
Recovery password text box, enter the password that you’d like to use, enter it
again in the Retype your password text box, and t hen click Next .
Notes:
l The recovery password must be 12–16 characters long. It canno t con t ain
multi-byte
words. This means you can only enter ASCII character whose
code
value is less than 128.
l The same password is used for all disks backed up to the same storage
system.
If you subsequently protect a second disk using the same storage
system,
you will no t be prompted to provide this password again.
However , if you protect a second disk using a dif f eren t storage system,
you
will be prompted to provide a password for that storage system .
l You can change this password later using DiskSafe Express (as
described
in “Changing t he recovery password” and using
the storage system (as described in “Changing the recovery password”).