Acer Altos EasyStore - Changing the Recovery Password

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For booting remotely , you can also spec if y the MAC address to use (if you wan t to
remotely boot a computer using a dif f erent 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 t hose backups manually using the Manager .
Chang ing the recovery password
To change the recovery password:
1 . In the naviga t ion bar , click Backups .
2. I n Computer name list in the Recovery passwords group box, select t he name
of the compu t er whose recovery password you want to change.
3 . In the Recovery password text box, type the password to use.
This password must be 12–16 characters long. It cannot contain multi-byte
words. This means you can only enter ASCII character whose code value is less
than
128.
4. Click Change Password .
5 . When the confirmation message displays, click OK .
The user must provide this password when recovering a disk f rom this storage
system
using the recovery CD or when remotely booting from a backup on the
storage
system.
Configur in g remote boot
Normally , when you enable remote boot f or a clien t computer (as described in
“Enabling
remote boot”), no additional action is necessary on the storage system.
However , if you want to remotely boo t one computer from another
compu t er’s backup, you must change the MAC address. For example, if Computer1
has been infected by a virus, and all of it s backups are also infected, you migh t want
to boot Computer1 from one of Computer2’s backups and recover tha t disk to
Computer1.
To do this, you must change the MAC address associa t ed with
Computer2.
Note: If you try to recover one computer from another computer’s backup, both
compu
t ers must have identical hardware. Otherwise, the recovered files will no t
operate properly .
You can also specify which backup to remotely boo t 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.)