User`s guide

Chapter 4. Using SonicWALL Bare Metal

Recovery

SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery supports the GUI mode and the command-line mode.

Here we describe the operations available in the GUI mode, which provides the widest

functionality. For console commands and scripting please see

Chapter 13. Command-line

mode and scripting

4.1 Main program window

The main program window contains the menu, the toolbar, the sidebar and the main

area. The sidebar features a pane for selecting task category, the Tools and Help panes.

The main area displays operation icons or tasks depending on the category selected.

By default, the program displays operations included in the Backup and Recovery

category. Operation icons are divided into three groups.

The Task group contains the following operations:

• Backup – create a backup archive

• Recovery – restore data from a previously created backup archive

The Tools group contains the following operations:

• Explore and Validate Backup Archives – explore file-level archives, mount

disk/partition images as virtual drives, run the archive integrity checking procedure

• Manage Hard Disks – clone disk (i.e. transfer the OS, applications and data from

the old disk to the new one) or mark out partitions on a new hard disk added for data

storage with the OS and applications kept on the old one, convert basic disks to

dynamic and create dynamic volumes