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Disaster Recovery direct from Ext USB


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Dell Latitude

 

Win2K Pro

 

Retrospect 6 (trial version for testing)

 

w/ 40GB External Maxtor USB drive.

 

 

 

Reading over the disaster recovery intructions, I see that in order to recover the system you have to:

 

 

 

Install Windows 2000

 

Install Retrospect 6

 

 

 

Recover from a backup set that was created.

 

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My questions are...

 

 

 

1) Can I recover directly from a backup set via some sort of boot disk to access the USB drive. No Win2K/Retrospect install???

 

 

 

2) Can I plug the USB drive into another machine to create the recovery CD from a backup set?

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks

 

 

 

 

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1) Can I recover directly from a backup set via some sort of boot disk to access the USB drive. No Win2K/Retrospect install???


 

 

 

Retrospect needs to be running in a bootable Windows OS for restore. You can also create a disaster recovery CD to boot your machine and start a restore wizard. See the Users Guide for complete information.

 

 

 

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2) Can I plug the USB drive into another machine to create the recovery CD from a backup set?


The Disaster Recovery CD requires components specific to the machine that the CD is being created for. You must create the DR image on the machine for which you'll use the DR CD.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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