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Prepare a device including the “*.inf” file. |
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When the BMR Network Configuration dialog box is displayed, do one of the following: |
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If the system detects the adapter and displays it in the Network Adapters list, select the item, and then complete Step 2 and Step 3 under Booting the NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client with the Windows PE-based Plug-in Offline Client |
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To open a DOS prompt, click Launch CMD. |
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Insert the device created in Step 1, or map to the applicable network drive. |
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In the Windows Task Manager screen, select the Processes tab, right-click drdaemon, select End Process, and close the Task Manager. |
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To restart the drdaemon, type the following at a command prompt (if necessary, click Launch CMD again), and press Enter: |
If you do not, or cannot, use a device such as a USB device, 3.0 protocol or earlier, to load a driver after Windows PE has started, use the following process to add the driver to the Plug-in Offline Client image and then re-create the Plug-in Offline Client image with the added driver. To complete this process, you must have Windows ADK for Windows 8 installed, the applicable “*.inf” file, a program capable of extracting an ISO image, and a method for repackaging the ISO as a bootable image or bootable CD. The following steps are based on Windows 7; these steps might differ depending on your environment.
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Download the Windows ADK for Windows 8 from: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30652 |
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Install the Windows ADK on a Windows Server 2008 R2 or later system. |
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Extract the “NetVault Bare Metal Recovery ISO Builder for Plug-in Offline Client for Windows” file to the Windows ADK machine. |
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To create the Windows PE ISO image, navigate to the directory that contains the extracted “nvbmrisocreate.exe” file, type the following at the command prompt, and press Enter: |
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/TYPE: If you are working with an earlier version of the Plug-in Offline Client, enter WAIK for Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK). If you are using version 6.1 or later, you can enter ADK. |
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/PKG: Enter the full path and filename for the Plug-in Offline Client .pkg file that you downloaded separately. |
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/DIR: Enter the full path to the location of the Windows AIK or ADK directory. |
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/OUT: Enter the path where the bootable ISO image should be created. |
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/ADDDRV: Enter the full path where the downloaded device drivers are stored. |
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/BIT:32: If you must create a backward-compatible version of VaultOS for use with a 32-bit version of Windows PE, enter this option. |
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If you are booting the NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client from a LiveCD, perform the following procedure. If you are booting the NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client from a standard VaultOS CD, proceed to Booting the NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Client with the Windows PE-based Plug-in Offline Client.
The following items are required for this procedure:
IMPORTANT: When using Windows PE-based VaultOS with NetVault SmartDisk, the Connect ports for devices option in NetVault Backup uses twice as many ports as there are partitions. For example, if you are restoring to a disk that contains seven partitions, the device connection uses 14 ports. |
To boot the client, perform the following steps.
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If the LiveCD automatically mounted the USB/CD drive, use the “mount -l” command to find the path where the device is mounted. |
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To find the USB devices on the system, use the “ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/usb*” command. |
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To start drdaemon, run the “vaultdr_client.sh” command. |
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If you configured NetVault Bare Metal Recovery to use a port other than the default “10000,” exit the NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Daemon dialog box, and enter the new port number manually. |
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NOTE: If you want to restart NetVault Bare Metal Recovery Daemon from the command prompt without changing the port number, type drdaemon and press Enter. |
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Disk Partitions: All (or individual) partitions can be selected for backup. |
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Mounted Volumes (Linux and UNIX): All of which are backed up as individual partitions. |
NOTE: The Master Boot Record (MBR) and the Partition Table items are backed up automatically when a partition (all or individual) is backed up using the Plug-in Server. Therefore, these items are not available to select for a backup. |
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