User`s guide

A dynamic volume can be recovered over the same volume or unallocated space of a

dynamic group. If recovered over another volume, the target volume’s contents will be

overwritten with the image contents, but the type or other properties of the target

volume will not be changed.

To restore a dynamic volume exactly as it is, prepare a target dynamic group without

volumes. In case you want to restore a dynamic volume in place of some volumes already

existing on the target disks, delete the original volumes using third-party tools, such as

the Windows Disk Management tool.

Dynamic volume contents alone can be recovered onto a basic or dynamic volume

without changing the target volume type. SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery Universal

Enterprise Server has the Dynamic Volume Creation Wizard tool so that you be able

to prepare the desired volumes on the target disks.

Backward conversion of dynamic volume to basic disks can be performed, if need be,

using the Add new disk operation (see

Chapter 12. Adding a new hard disk

With these tools, anywhere-to-anywhere data recovery becomes available, in terms of

basic disks and dynamic volumes of any type (simple, spanned, striped, mirrored or RAID

5). The tools are available in bootable program version. Having booted the SonicWALL

environment, you can easily prepare the desired dynamic group on bare metal or a

computer with non-Windows operating system.

For how to use the above tools see

6.5 Creating dynamic disks and volumes

6.2 Restoring files and folders from images

Here we describe how to restore files/folders from a disk/partition image. To do so,

mount the image (see

9.2.2 Mounting an image

) or start the image restoration and select

Restore specified files or folders.

1. Start the Restore Data Wizard by clicking on the restore operation icon in the main

program window.

2. Select the archive.