Operations with a bootable media

Operations with the bootable media are similar to the backup and recovery operations that are performed under a running operating system. The differences are as follows:

  1. Under a bootable media with Windows-like volume representation, a volume has the same drive letter as in Windows. Volumes that don't have drive letters in Windows (such as the System Reserved volume) are assigned free letters in order of their sequence on the disk.

    If the bootable media cannot detect Windows on the machine or detects more than one, all volumes, including those without drive letters, are assigned letters in order of their sequence on the disk. Thus, the volume letters may differ from those seen in Windows. For example, the D: drive under the bootable media might correspond to the E: drive in Windows.

    It is advisable to assign unique names to the volumes.

  2. The bootable media with Linux-like volume representation shows local disks and volumes as unmounted (sda1, sda2...).
  3. Backups created using bootable media have simplified file names. Standard names are assigned to the backups only if these are added to an existing archive with standard file naming or if the destination does not support simplified file names.
  4. The bootable media with a Linux-like volume representation cannot write backups to an NTFS-formatted volume. Switch to a media with Windows-like volume representation if you need to do so. To toggle the bootable media volume representations, click Tools > Change volume representation.
  5. Tasks cannot be scheduled. If you need to repeat an operation, configure it from scratch.
  6. The log lifetime is limited to the current session. You can save the entire log or the filtered log entries to a file.

  7. Centralized vaults are not displayed in the folder tree of the Archive window.

    To access a managed vault, type the following string in the Path field:

    bsp://node_address/vault_name/

    To access an unmanaged centralized vault, type the full path to the vault's folder.

    After entering access credentials, you will see a list of archives located in the vault.

Setting up a display mode

When you boot a machine via Linux-based bootable media, a display video mode is detected automatically based on the hardware configuration (monitor and graphics card specifications). If the video mode is detected incorrectly, do the following:

  1. In the boot menu, press F11.
  2. On the command line, enter the following: vga=ask, and then proceed with booting.
  3. From the list of supported video modes, choose the appropriate one by typing its number (for example, 318), and then press Enter.

If you don't want to follow this procedure every time you boot a given hardware configuration, re-create the bootable media with the appropriate mode number (in the example above, vga=0x318) typed in the Kernel parameters window.