StorageCraft | ShadowProtect Backup Software Blog » Disaster recovery; backup software; recovery CD http://www.storagecraft.com/blog Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:16:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Creating a Recovery CD http://www.storagecraft.com/blog/creating-a-recovery-cd/ http://www.storagecraft.com/blog/creating-a-recovery-cd/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:53:28 +0000 Laura Shafer http://www.storagecraft.com/blog/?p=575 If you’ve recently purchased StorageCraft ShadowProtect  for the first time, you may not know how to create a recovery CD. You’ll need a  CD with the StorageCraft Recovery Environment in case you ever need to restore a system — whether it’s a server or a desktop/laptop.  If you downloaded the software from the StorageCraft Web site, you received some instructions on how to do this, but you may not have understood why you need to do this now. Basically it boils down to this: if you wait until you need the recovery disk (say, following a catastrophic failure), it will be a little more difficult to create the CD. It’s always so much easier to have it handy before the disaster.

So here’s what to do. After downloading ShadowProtect, load a blank CD into your CD/DVD drive. Now navigate to the folder where you saved your ShadowProtect 4 download, unzip the file and you’ll see a .ISO image file.  Open your CD burning software and then browse to the .ISO file and burn this to your CD. Once it’s burned, make sure you label it ShadowProtect Recovery CD and put it in a safe place.

Most CD burning software are able to create a CD from an .ISO file, but there are some free tools available to do this, too: ISOTool.exe is a tool included with ShadowProtect and Active @ISO Burner is a free tool you can download at: http://www.ntfs.com/iso_burner_free.htm.

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