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I/A 70 Series Backup and Restore

Version 3.0 - Network and local peripherals

2 The I/A 70 Series Backup and Restore CD.

The I/A 70 Series Backup and Restore CD makes maintaining a current backup of your 70 Series

Workstations easy. The reason for making it was mainly the frustration with the time consuming

standard NT backup and restore procedure for the Foxboro 70 Series product. The standard

Windows NT procedure would always require the Windows NT Operating system to be installed

before the restore software (which is NT/GUI based) can be used. This is by itself already a time-

consuming task which is complicated even more by expiring program licenses that may be linked to

the systems (now changed) hostid.

Any alternative would have to minimize downtime and allow fast recovery in case of a system

failure and this is where the I/A 70 Series Backup and Restore CD comes in.

Extensive experience in the field with various software packages has led to the decision to use

Norton Ghost as the backup software solution. Another important requirement for the I/A 70 Series

Backup and Restore CD was to provide a simple and easy to understand operator interface while

still allowing access to all features of the core programs using their native command line or GUI.

This has resulted in the I/A 70 Series Backup and Restore CD.

2.1 The System Requirements.

We will start with the basic requirements for backups and restores on an I/A 70 Series station using

the I/A 70 Series Backup and Restore CD. Assuming that I/A Series software is already installed, you

have a system that meets the basic requirements to use the I/A 70 Series Backup and Restore CD.

To make use of the Backup and Restore CD you need:

• An I/A 70 Series Workstation Processor.

• The I/A 70 Series Backup and Restore CD with optionally a boot diskette.

• One of the backup options: a SCSI tape drive, a disk drive for cloning OR a removable disk drive

(MO, Iomega SCSI ZIP, Iomega SCSI Jaz) connected to the system either already provided with

the system after shipping or to be acquired later.

• A CD-ROM drive is required run the backup software.

• If you can't boot from CD-ROM, a floppy drive is required in conjunction with the CD-ROM drive

Note:

The preferred boot order for the devices as set in the system BIOS is:

1. Floppy disk drive.

2. CD-ROM

3. Hard disk.

2.2 Backup methods.

For the backup and restore steps please refer to chapter “7 Quick start.“.

I/A 70 Series Workstations are not always equipped with all the hardware to support an easy backup

strategy. This chapter will attempt to explain some of the roads you can go down in order to fix that

The I/A 70 Series Backup and Restore CD.

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