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3. image mounting in read/write mode

4. dynamic disks support

5. image consolidation

6. backup scheduling

7. backup multiple increments throughout a day

8. schedule periodic backup validation

9. Microsoft Volume Shadow copy Service (VSS) support

Further in the text all mentions of these functions are related to the SonicWALL Bare

Metal Recovery Universal Enterprise Server.

SonicWALL Bootable Rescue Media Builder - creates bootable media, its ISO image

or the RIS package thus enabling data recovery over bare metal, non-Windows or

corrupted operating systems.

1.3 Supported file systems and storage media

1.3.1 Supported file systems

• FAT16/32

• NTFS

• Ext2/Ext3

• ReiserFS

• Reiser4 (w/o resize)

• XFS (w/o resize)

• JFS

• DFS

If a file system is not supported or is corrupted, SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery can copy

data using a sector-by-sector approach.

1.3.2 Supported storage media

• Hard disk drives (IDE, SATA, SCSI)

• Networked storage devices such as Storage Area Networks (SANs) and Network

Attached Storage (NAS)

• IDE and SCSI RAID controllers of any level

• FTP-servers*

• CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R (including double-layer DVD+R), DVD+RW, DVD-

RAM**

• USB 1.0 / 2.0, FireWire (IEEE-1394) and PC card storage devices

• ZIP

, Jaz

and other removable media

* - an FTP-server must allow passive mode for file transfers. Data recovery directly from

FTP-server requires the archive to consist of files no more than 2GB in size. It is

recommended that you change the source computer firewall settings to open ports 20