Acer Altos EasyStore - Upgrading the Firmware

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Upgrading the firmware
The Firmware page displays the current version of the firmware that is installed on
your
storage system. It also allows you to upgrade it if newer firmware becomes
available
.
For additional security , you must enter your administrator password in order to
upgrade
the firmware.
Caution:
l When you upgrade the firmware, the storage system restar t s . Access to the
Manager
is temporarily interrupted , and users will not be able to access the
shared
f olders during this process. If users have files open on the storage
system,
da t a might be lost. Be sure to have all users save their changes and
close
any open files before you upgrade the firmware.
l Restarting the storage system when a backup is occurring will not have any
adverse
effect; the backup will resume automatically when the storage server
resumes
operation. However , restarting the storage system when a disk is being
recovered can potentially corrupt the user’s operating system, and the user will
have to recover the system disk using the recovery CD (or , if the system disk
was no t protected , re-install the operating system). Be sure to upgrade the
firmware only when recovery is not occurring.
l If you upgrade from version 1.0 or 1 . 1, the personal folders (that is, the home
folders) that were automatically created for each Windows or Mac OS X user
will
be deleted . If you want t o retain the data in those folders, you must copy it
to another location before upgrading the firmware.
To upgrade the firmware:
1 . In the naviga t ion bar , click Advanced .
2 . In the le ft pane , click Firmware .
3 . In the Firmware file text box, enter the path and file name for t he firmware
package
(such as D:\fs-bc - 1 . 2-b507.pkg ), or click Browse and select the f ile
from
the displayed list.