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freeStor 4020 User’s Manual
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click “OK”. If you used the guest user name, the password is also guest.
3. Double-click any of the displayed folders or files to open them. You have full read/write
access to all the folders and files in both the public folder and your personal folder, and you
can create new ones. If you browse to other websites, you will remain logged in until you
close the browser window. (That is, you can return to the FTP site using the Back button in
your browser window.)
4.2 System Backup with DiskSafe Express
Even if most of your data is stored and protected on your storage system, your operating
system files, applications, and many other files still reside on each individual computer in your
network. If one of those local disks fails, it can take many hours to re-install and reconfigure the
operating system and applications on a new or repaired hard disk, and some files might be
completely lost.
DiskSafe Express is a software application designed to address this issue. On each computer
where it is installed, DiskSafe Express provides reliable data protection and rapid data recovery
in the event of a system crash or disk failure.
DiskSafe Express protects Windows desktops and laptops by backing up their local disks or
partitions to the storage system. To make sure that you have recent copies of your local disk,
DiskSafe Express can automatically perform a backup daily or weekly. Up to four backups are
saved on the storage system for each computer; with the oldest backup being automatically
deleted once the fifth backup is performed.
To ensure that valuable storage space isn’t used up by duplicate data, when DiskSafe Express
performs each subsequent backup, it copies only the data that has changed since the last time
a backup was performed. This also minimizes the impact on your network. Yet through unique
technology on the storage system, each backup is a complete point-in-time image. You can view
or recover the entire disk or partition exactly as it existed at a particular date and time.
Whenever you want to recover data from the storage system, you can do so quickly and easily.
If you need to recover just a few folders or files, you can access the desired backup and copy
what you need back to your local disk. If the protected disk isn’t your system disk (that is, the
disk that contains the Windows operating system files that the computer uses when it runs), and
you need to recover the whole disk, you can do so using DiskSafe Express. And if the protected
disk is your system disk, and you need to recover the whole disk, you can do so by using the
recovery CD included with the freeStor 4020, or booting from the freeStor 4020 using PXE. The
added advantage of using PXE, if it is supported by your computer, is that you can continue
running your computer off of the freeStor 4020 until it is convenient for you to perform a
recovery, minimizing the amount of downtime experienced. Recovering the whole disk restores
the disk with exactly the same data that it contained at the time the backup was performed – you
don’t have to reinstall or reconfigure the operating system or applications.
4.2.1 System Requirements
Each computer where DiskSafe Express is installed must meet the following system
requirements:
• One of the following operating systems:
o Microsoft Windows XP Home or Professional Edition (Service Pack 2)
o Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Service Pack 1)