EMC Connectrix ED-64M, User Manual

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Using Maintenance Features
Restore 1. Set the director off line before performing the restore function.
(Refer to Setting the Online State on page 7-8.)
2. Click Restore on the Backup and Restore Configuration window
to restore the backed up configuration to the NV-RAM on the
director.
A confirmation window indicates that the restore will overwrite
any existing configuration already on the director. The window
also displays the date of the restored backup.
Click OK. The restore operation initiates an IPL.
3. When the restore finishes, set the director back on line.
Automatic Backup
to Zip Disk As long as a Zip drive (with a disk in it) is connected to the
Connectrix service processor and the user remains logged in to the
Windows NT operating system, data is backed up, critical
information from both the Product Manager and Connectrix Manager
applications automatically backs up to the Zip disk when the data
directory contents change or when you reboot the Connectrix service
processor.
Connectrix Manager maintains a mirror image of its configuration data on
the D:\ drive of the service processor. The automatic backup to the Zip disk
occurs only when you log in to the service processor or when the service
processor is rebooted. If you want the automatic backup to occur all of the
time (which is recommended), the best way to accomplish this is to not log
out of the service processor, but rather to lock the workstation by pressing
CTRL-ALT-DEL and selecting Lock Workstation.
The application used for this function is Iomega QuikSync, a separate
application installed on the Connectrix service processor. QuikSync is
configured to automatically mirror the contents of the
EfcData
directory to the Zip drive when the contents are changed or when
you reboot the Connectrix service processor. This directory contains
all Connectrix Manager and Product Manager data, so it can be
copied back to a newly restored Connectrix service processor to fully
recover the preferred operating environment.
The mirroring operation will only occur while a user is logged in to
Windows NT on the Connectrix service processor PC (independent of
the Connectrix Manager login).