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Liviu's avatar
Liviu
Level 3
9 years ago

SRD credentials

I am a beginner, testing System Recovery 2013 R2 Desktop edition. I created a SRD on Win 7. I boot a computer with SRD (Windows XP on it, no System Recovery installed). testing purpose is cold backup...
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  • criley's avatar
    criley
    9 years ago

    There is nothing within the product that allows you to do this (we used to include pcAnywhere but Symantec unfortunately end-of-lifed that product).

    If you are using SSR with servers that have remote insight boards (i.e. HP iLO), you could use this solution.

    However, for desktops/laptops, this clearly is not an option. The only solution I know that should work for this is UltraVNC.

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criley
Moderator
9 years ago

For remote recovery, you need to browse to the backup files (know as recovery points). Your comment is really the wrong way round ...

In other words:

  • Run a backup (via SSR or via the recovery disk)
  • Boot machine using recovery disk
  • Browse to location where recovery points are stored
  • Run restore

Hope that helps.