Dell 750N. 755N manual System State Backup and Restore, Initial System Setup

4Turn on the system.

The Reinstallation CD automatically starts the installation process if the system is a PowerVault 750N or 755N NAS appliance and if the first logical volume configured on the RAID controller is a drive in a two drive RAID 1 group.

It takes up to 30 minutes for the system to reinstall.

NOTE: The CD ejects approximately 7 minutes into the installation time. The ejection of the CD does not indicate an error or that the process is finished.

5If you had two new, initialized drives in step 3, reinsert any internal data drives that were removed prior to the operating system reinstallation after the CD has ejected. Otherwise, proceed to step 6.

6Use a Web browser to connect to the system.

7Use the Dell OpenManage™ Array Manager to merge into the system any data containers that were previously defined. (See the “Merging Foreign Disks” section in “System Recovery, Backup, and Restore” for more information about merging disks.)

Initial System Setup

After the operating system is reinstalled on the system, you should configure the system again to establish network communication. If Kick-Start is used for configuration, insert your Kick-Start diskette after the CD drive tray ejects the Reinstallation CD. See “Introduction” for information on initial system configuration.

System State Backup and Restore

Integrated Windows 2000 backup and recovery tools allows administrators to back up and restore the system state data.

System state data includes the following:

•Registry

•COM+ class registration database

•System boot files

•Users and groups information

•CIFS/NFS/Novell® NetWare®/Macintosh share data

System Recover y, Backup, and Restore

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