Western Digital WDBLGT0120KBK manual Recovering/Restoring Windows PC, Click Computers and Backups

USING THE WD SENTINEL SERVER’S FEATURES

Recovering/Restoring (Windows PC)

The WD Sentinel server provides two options for recovering lost or corrupted data:

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Restore a Computer—Restores all the data and settings of a Windows PC computer or a storage device connected to the WD Sentinel server.

Recover File/Folders —Recovers individual files or folders.

Note: For information on recovering/restoring data on your Mac using Time Machine, See “Recovering/Restoring (Mac)” on page 49.

Restoring Windows PC Computers (Bare Metal Restore)

This feature restores a Windows PC connected to your WD Sentinel server. Should your computer experience an unfavorable event such as a hard drive crash, the Recovery feature reinstalls the operating system, software applications, and all the data. This type of recovery is known as a bare-metal restore; it recovers everything that was on the computer when it was backed up.

Best Practice: You may need some network drivers. Save them to a USB flash drive.

To restore a Windows PC that has been backed up:

1.Click Computers and Backups

on the navigation bar.

2.Select the computer that was backed up.

3.Insert a USB flash device into one of the WD Sentinel server’s USB ports.

4.In the panel on the right, click Additional Client Computer Backup Tasks and then Tools:

5.Click Create Key to generate a bootable USB flash key (configuration file) on the connected USB flash drive. You will use the key to boot the PC and download the backed-up system. Follow the wizard to complete the process.

6.Remove the USB flash drive from the WD Sentinel server and connect it to the computer you want to restore.

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