About Restore Manager; Downloading The Restore Manager - Dell DR4000 Administrator's Manual

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NOTE:
The DR4000 system only supports the copying of upgrade images and
diagnostics files to and from the system using WinSCP. The DR4000 system does not
support the copying or deleting of any other file types using WinSCP. To use WinSCP
to copy DR4000 software upgrade and diagnostics log files, ensure that the File
Protocol mode is set to SCP (Secure Copy) mode.

About Restore Manager

The Restore Manager (RM) is used to restore the DR4000 system software.
RM can be used in the event of a non-recoverable hardware or software failure
that prevents the system from functioning correctly. RM can also be used to
reset the system back to its initial factory settings when moving it from a test
environment to a production environment.
The Restore Manager supports two modes:
• Recover Appliance—in a Recover Appliance mode, RM reinstalls the
operating system and attempts to recover the prior system configuration
and the data residing in the containers.
• Factory Reset—in a Factory Reset mode, RM reinstalls the operating
system and resets the system configuration back to the original factory
state. It is important to note that when doing a factory reset, all of the
containers and the data in the containers gets deleted.
CAUTION:
The Factory Reset mode deletes all DR4000 system data. The Factory
Reset mode should only be used when the container data is no longer needed.

Downloading the Restore Manager

The RM runs from a USB boot key containing the RM image, which must
first be downloaded from the Dell support site.
1 From a web browser, navigate to the following Dell website:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads
2 Enter the DR4000 system Service Tag to be directed to the DR4000
system download page.
3 In the Category drop-down list, select IDM.
4 If required, expand the IDM category to list the available IDM download
files.
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