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Click the Modify Settings button to open the Disaster Recovery Settings page.
Modify the settings for backup as you desire. Do not include spaces in the Backup
name field. When you have modified the settings, click the OK button to save the
changes.
On the Disaster Recovery page, click the Start Backup button to begin the backup.
The backup process will first create a persistent image of the system drive (C:),
named System Backup. Then, it will create the backup images from that persistent
image, and then delete that persistent image when the backup operation is
complete.
Creating a PSM recovery diskette
You will now create a bootable PSM recovery diskette which, when used to boot up
the node, will use the backup location settings you configured on the Disaster
Recovery Settings page to locate the backup image and restore it to the system
drive of the node.
1. Insert a blank, formatted diskette in the diskette drive of the node.
2. On the Disaster Recovery page, click Create Disk.
3. Click OK on the Create Recovery Disk page. The diskette drive LED will turn off
when the creation is complete. The diskette creation should take no more than
two minutes.
4. The utility makes the disk DOS-bootable. From a command prompt, either
through the desktop of the node itself (with the diskette still in the diskette drive
of the node), or on another system with the diskette in its diskette drive, type
a:\fixboot.exe and answer the prompts.
Note: When you run fixboot.exe on the diskette, the diskette remains bootable
unless you reformat it; if you later erase files on the diskette, you do not
need to run fixboot.exe again.
5. Remove the diskette from the appropriate diskette drive. Label the diskette
appropriately and keep it in a safe place.
You can create additional copies of the diskette using the above procedure for each
new copy.
Note: If you change the backup location or logon settings using the Disaster
Recovery Settings page, you must rebuild the PSM recovery diskette(s) for
that node to reflect the new settings for that node.
Static IP addressing
If you do not have a DHCP server on your network, and you must access a backup
image that is only accessible through the network (for example, no backup image is
located on the maintenance partition [D: drive] of the node to be recovered), then
you must configure the recovery diskette so that it will use a static IP address and
subnet mask when accessing the network.
On the PSM recovery diskette, edit the file a:\net_sets.bat. Set the IPAddress and
SubnetMask environment variables as follows:
1. Uncomment the two lines that begin with rem (comment lines) by removing the
rem from the beginning of both lines.
2. For each line, what follows the equals sign (=) is an IP address expressed as a
set of four space-separated numbers (an IP address without the dots [.]).
Change the SubnetMask value to match the subnet mask your network uses.
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