rlshew Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Please add the ability to use static IPs when using the Emergency Recovery CD with clients. Some networks do not have DHCP for one reason or other, and backup admins. may not have permission to temporarily connect to one for the purpose of restoring clients. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Our engineers saw your post and have logged a bug for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastercam Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Hi! Has this been resolved? We too have a static setup. ~thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 If you search the forum, you will find a few posts from users who have modified the WinPE boot image to add a static IP address before burning it to CD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastercam Posted June 25, 2012 Report Share Posted June 25, 2012 If you search the forum, you will find a few posts from users who have modified the WinPE boot image to add a static IP address before burning it to CD. Hey Mr M....hope you're well. You've been flying around with a bunch of companies on the Retrospect Flyer! Always doing a great job I might add. Yes, I know of that tweak....is Retrospect planning on supporting a static IP configuration? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted September 27, 2012 Report Share Posted September 27, 2012 We are making changes in our next version that give users much more control over the settings and options within the BootableCD, so Static IP should work in the next version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastercam Posted September 27, 2012 Report Share Posted September 27, 2012 Great to hear! Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rfajman Posted January 15, 2018 Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 I don't see any evidence that this has been resolved. I have a small local Ethernet with no DHCP server and static IP addresses. I found the instructions (from a Google search, not a search on the Retrospect web site) for setting the IP address. But why isn't there an option on the Disaster Recovery disk menu for doing that? I put this command file into the root directory of the DR disk: netsh interface ip set address Ethernet static %1 255.255.255.0 netsh interface ip show address Then, after booting from the DR disk, I can shift-click on the local restore option in the menu, which gives me a command prompt from WinPE. Then I can say ipaddr <IP address> Then I exit from the command window, which then goes into local restore. I click on Back to return to the menu so that I can do a client restore. This does not seem to me like something that would be difficult to include on the menu. After all, Retrospect supports clients with static IP addresses, so DR should too. At the very least, the above process should be documented in the Retrospect manual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidHertzberg Posted January 16, 2018 Report Share Posted January 16, 2018 Using Advanced Search in the Forums, I found this July 2011 post in a thread on the subject. The purpose of its functioning seems different from what rfajman proposes in the post directly above in this thread, but I'm a Retrospect Mac administrator and don't understand much of it. Note that, in the thread containing the post I linked to, c407ef61-f768-4172-acf2-0d58768780b0 was still going by the "handle" ehunternrl. If rfajman wants to file a Support Case for this product suggestion, here is why and how to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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