Dell PowerVault 701N Getting Started
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- Page 1 PowerQuest® DataKeeper™ PowerVault™ 701N/705N Edition This guide includes the following information: Getting Started (page 2) Creating Your First Backup (page 8) Creating a Custom Backup (page 10) Restoring a Backup (page 14) Dell Technical Support (page 16)
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Page 2: Getting Started
95, Windows 98, Windows NT® 4.0, and Windows 2000 provides an easy way to perform secure, automated backups and restorations of all your important data to a designated PowerVault 701N/705N or to your local hard disk. You can use this edition of DataKeeper to: •... - Page 3 If needed, use the PowerVault 701N/705N manual to help you with the installation. You must be able to access the PowerVault 701N/705N over your network, and all the DataKeeper users must be set up as users on the PowerVault 701N/705N. The DataKeeper Admin program (SETUPADMIN.EXE) cannot set up a private share...
- Page 4 (“shares”) on the PowerVault 701N/705N to hold each user’s backup files. You must be able to log into the PowerVault 701N/705N as an administrator to set up shares. 3 Install DataKeeper on individual workstations. DataKeeper will automatically find the PowerVault 701N/705N that was configured with the DataKeeper Admin program.
- Page 5 4 Select SETUPADMIN.EXE, then click Open. 5 Click OK. 6 Select the PowerVault 701N/705N where you want user backup data to reside, then click Create User Shares. 7 Specify an approved administrator ID and password. 8 Select the users that you want to share the selected PowerVault 701N/705N.
- Page 6 PowerQuest DataKeeper must not be installed on the same machine. 1 Use Windows Explorer to locate the public share on the PowerVault 701N/705N with the DataKeeper program, SETUPUSER.EXE. 2 Double-click SETUPUSER.EXE, then follow the on-screen instructions to install...
- Page 7 3 Click Browse, and navigate to the language folder of choice on the DataKeeper 4 Select SETUPUSER.EXE and click Open. Follow the on-screen instructions to install the program and select the PowerVault 701N/705N to use for backups. Online Help for DataKeeper For information beyond what this Quick Start Guide provides, refer to the online Help.
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Page 8: Creating Your First Backup
Creating Your First Backup Starting DataKeeper 1 Start Windows. DataKeeper is launched automatically at startup. The DataKeeper program icon appears in the system tray. If DataKeeper does not launch at startup, you can start the program manually. From the Start menu on the Windows taskbar, click Programs PowerQuest DataKeeper PVE. - Page 9 Monitoring Your System DataKeeper is set up, by default, to monitor changes to all fixed drives on your system and to automatically create a backup of any file that you save to your hard disk. Common program files (such as Windows files and EXE files, the directories specified by the environment variables Temp and Tmp, and your local backup location) are excluded from the automatic backup to minimize backup time and system impact.
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Page 10: Creating A Custom Backup
Creating a Custom Backup DataKeeper includes options that let you customize how your data is backed up to a PowerVault 701N/705N. 1 From the DataKeeper window, click the Backup tab. If necessary, click Stop Monitoring to access the backup options on the Backup tab. - Page 11 Type your PowerVault 701N/ location 705N password in the Password text box. If you know the name of a specific PowerVault 701N/ 705N where you want the backup saved, type the name in the PowerVault text box, then click Find PowerVault 701N/705Ns.
- Page 12 Creating a Custom Backup Maintain archive copies of files Do this: Under Options, select Keep Daily/Weekly/Monthly archive. This option maintains archive copies, even if the number of backup copies has been exceeded. For example, if you specify that DataKeeper maintain the last five versions of a backup, and Keep daily/weekly/monthly archive is selected, DataKeeper does the following: •...
- Page 13 Compress backup files Password-protect backup files 3 After specifying new backup options, click Back Up Now on the Backup tab. You can choose to back up all files that meet the backup criteria you specified, or you can limit the backup to files that have been modified since the last backup (default choice) or created or modified since a specific date and time.
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Page 14: Restoring A Backup
PowerVault 701N/705N. When you change to the PowerVault 701N/705N, any backup files on your local hard disk are copied to the specified PowerVault 701N/705N and deleted from the hard disk. If you choose not to... - Page 15 1 From DataKeeper, click the Restore tab. 2 Select the files and folders you want to restore from the backup location. You can only restore items that you have backed up using DataKeeper. 3 Select the destination folder from the drop-down list, or click Browse to select the destination folder you want.
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Page 16: Dell Technical Support
Dell Technical Support Dell Technical Support If you need technical support for DataKeeper PowerVault 701N/705N Edition, go to support.dell.com. For other contact information or information about Dell products, go to www.dell.com. Copyright and Trademarks © 1999-2000 PowerQuest Corporation. All rights reserved. PowerQuest is a registered trademark of PowerQuest Corporation in the U.S.A.