Users Guide
NOTE: Ensure that you have the latest RUU available and reachable on your appliance.
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NOTE: To perform system recovery using RASR, see Recovering a Dell DL Backup and Recovery Appliance using Rapid
Appliance Self Recovery (RASR) at https://www.dell.com/support..
To perform a factory reset:
1. Insert the RASR USB key created.
2. Restart the appliance and select Boot Manager (F11).
3. In the Boot Manager Main Menu, select One-shot BIOS Boot Menu.
4. In the Boot Manager Boot Menu, select the attached USB drive.
5. Select your keyboard layout.
6. Click Troubleshoot > Rapid Appliance Self Recovery.
7. Select the target operating system (OS).
RASR is launched and welcome screen is displayed.
8. Click Next.
The Prerequisites check screen is displayed.
NOTE: Ensure all the hardware and other prerequisites are checked before performing the RASR.
9. Click Next.
The Recovery Mode Selection screen is displayed with three options:
● System Recovery
● Windows Recovery Wizard
● Factory Reset
10. Select the Factory Reset option.
This option will recover the operating system disk from the factory image.
11. Click Next.
The following warning message is displayed in a dialog box: This operation will recover the operating
system. All OS disk data will be overwritten.
12. Click Yes.
The operating system disk starts restoring back to factory reset.
13. The RASR Completed page is displayed on completion of the recovery process. Click Finish.
14. Boot the system after restore.
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NOTE: Continue further only if you see the AppAssure Appliance Configuration Wizard, otherwise go to Step 17.
Wait for AppAssure Appliance Configuration Wizard to load, you need to close it. Close the wizard using the Windows Task
Manager.
16. Run launchRUU.exe file in the RUU package. Follow the instructions and select the option to continue with RUU
installation and complete the RUU installation.
17. The DL Appliance Configuration Wizard launches and will guide you through the rest of the restore process.
Your appliance operates normally now.
The Local Mount Utility
This section describes how to download, install, and use the Windows-based Rapid Recovery Local Mount Utility (LMU) to
mount recovery points and explore the contents from a file level using a machine that does not host the Rapid Recovery Core.
About the Local Mount Utility
The LMU is a downloadable Windows-based application that lets you mount a Rapid Recovery recovery point in any of the three
available modes on any Windows machine. The light-weight utility can be installed on 32-bit as well as 64-bit Windows operating
systems and includes the rapidrecovery-vdisk (formerly aavdisk) and aavstor drivers, but it does not run as a service. When you
Working with the DL Appliance Core
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