Protecting Local Disks
110 Intel
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Entry Storage System SS4000-E User Guide
Enabling or Disabling Remote Boot
If you need to recover your system disk or partition, using the recovery CD is
recommended, as described in “Recovering a System Disk Using the Recovery CD” on
page 117. If your computer does not support the recovery CD but does support the PXE
protocol, you can remotely boot your computer from a backup on the storage system and
then recover your system disk. If you are not sure if your computer supports the PXE
protocol, try to enable remote boot. If your computer does not support the PXE protocol,
an error message displays.
Caution: It is strongly recommended that you determine whether or not your computer supports the
recovery CD before a system failure occurs. To do this, perform steps 1 through 3 in
“Recovering a System Disk Using the Recovery CD” on page 117 and use Diagnostic
Mode to confirm that at least one network interface card is supported.
If your computer does not support the recovery CD, you must enable remote boot before a
system failure occurs. Once your system fails, you cannot enable remote boot.
If your computer does not support either the recovery CD or the PXE protocol, gather
your hardware information, as described in step 4 in “Recovering a System Disk Using
the Recovery CD” on page 117, and send it to your vendor. You might be able to obtain an
updated recovery CD or a new driver that makes your computer compatible with your
existing recovery CD.
You can enable remote boot only if the following criteria are met:
• Microsoft Windows* was installed on the first partition of the first disk in your
computer.
• Intel
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Client Backup and Recovery was installed on that system partition.
• You protected your system disk or partition.
• You are accessing the computer directly rather than using Remote Desktop.
Note: You must wait until the initial backup of your system disk or partition has completed
before you enable remote boot.
When you enable remote boot, your network connection is temporarily interrupted. It is
recommended that you enable remote boot when this does not adversely affect any
network applications that you might be running.
If remote boot is successfully enabled, a new backup is created automatically.
Once you have enable remote boot, if you subsequently want to boot remotely using a
different network interface card (NIC), you must first disable remote boot and then enable
it again, specifying the other NIC. In addition, after you recover a disk while booting
remotely, you must disable and re-enable remote boot.
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