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occur or the storage system shuts down during recovery, your operating system
might become unstable, and you will have to recover it using the recovery CD (or
re-install the operating system if you did not protect your system disk).
In addition, if network errors occur or the storage system shuts down during recovery, your
operating system might become unstable, and you will have to recover it using the recovery
CD or remote boot (or re-install the operating system if you did not protect your system
disk). Be sure to recover your disks or partitions only when your environment is stable.
You can continue to use your computer for other tasks while the data is being recovered,
although not any applications or files located on the disk or partition that you’re recovering.
For more information, refer to Section 4.3.2.
• Recovering an entire system disk or partition: If you need to recover your system disk or
partition - that is, the disk or partition used to run the operating system - you can do so using
the recovery CD or remotely booting from the unit. This is particularly useful if the hard disk
has failed and has been repaired or replaced, or if you want to duplicate an existing disk
configuration for another computer. The entire disk or partition will be recovered to its exact
state at the time of the selected backup. However, you won’t be able to use your computer
until all this process is complete when using the recovery CD.
For more information, refer to Section 4.3.3 and Section 4.3.4.
Warning: 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 Section 4.3.3 and use the Diagnostic Mode to
confirm that at last one network interface card is supported. If your computer
does not support the recovery CD, you must enable remote boot (as described in
Enabling remote boot) before a system failure occurs. Once your system has
failed, 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 3 in Section 4.3.3) and
send it to your vendor. You might be able to obtain an updated recovery CD or a
new driver that will make your computer compatible with your existing recovery
CD.
4.3.1 Recovering Files From a Backup
To recover selected folders, files, or sections of files from a backup:
1. In the DiskSafe Express utility, click “Restore”.
2. In the Protected disk list, select the disk that contains the folders or files that you want to
recover.
3. In the Backups list, select the backup from the desired date and time. You can select only a
backup for which No appears in the Backup View Open column.
4. Click “View Backup”.
5. When the confirmation message appears, click “OK”.
After a few moments, a window opens automatically, displaying all the data associated with
the selected backup. You can now open the folders and files in the backup view to make
sure they contain the information you want, and copy any of the data to your local disk.
Warning: You can open and change the files in the backup view, and even