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Hi everybody

i forget my DVR admin password, i don't know how to reset the DVR or how to recover my password
there is no reset button in the DVR
Note : i already tried to remove the battery and turn on the DVR but the DVR still keeping the old password, imagine that turn on the DVR without battery for one day and turn it off for one day but still keeping the old password, here is a snapshot of its motherboard

i want to take your advice regarding one thing : i have a feeling that if i close the circuit in that white thing (called CN8) it will reset the DVR

what do you think guys ??

i don't have the book and the provider told me to remove the battery, but the removing of the battery doesn't solve the issue

@scottalanmiller said:

@IT-ADMIN said:

I've learned also that it perform block level backup, can I backup my files in daily basis incrementally to a NAS???

Which what tool? Nearly all backup is done to NAS and nearly all is incremental. As a general question, yes of course. But specifically we would need to know what tool you are going to use. You've already stated in the original post and reiterated again and again that Windows cannot do incremental to a NAS, so we have to assume you are asking about something else.... but what? Veeam? If so, yes.

Yes Dear Scott, i will use Veeam, i'm really pleased with it, it is free and can do daily incremental backup of my volumes to a NAS and what really impressed me is that i can even do incremental daily system image backup, something which is really great and also i can create a veeam USB recovery media in case of disaster and boot from USB and recover my system from NAS (which have many system restore point)
WOW that is really awesome, thank you for advising me to change my WBS, it is very very limited comparing to Veeam
i never imagine that i can find such powerful backup solution like veeam for free, wow

lol, @Dashrender is up to date, thank you for clarifying that, i'm not ready to spend 3 hours again to say that here they don't care about licensing, in brief this is another story

wow i feel confortable now, can you imagine that for 2 years now i didn't have any backup plan except for one (daily incremental data backup in the same HD : D---> E)
now i can store my data in a NAS far away from my file server and furthermore i can even store daily incremental system images of my server, wow very good improvement

the same webpage for me (country : qatar)

@coliver said:

@IT-ADMIN said:

i need to know what backup mode allows me to backup the system image : is it entire computer or volumes level backup (then choose the C volume) ??

Entire Computer

Ok, is this mode backup everything including the data in all partitions ??? then the size must be very heavy

@dafyre said:

@IT-ADMIN said:

having only one schedule backup of entire computer allows us to restore system image and data in the same time

Yes, but to do a FULL or Bare Metal restore, you will need to make the Recovery ISO and burn it to a USB or DVD that will boot your computer and connect you to the storage where your backups are located (IE: If they are on a NAS somewhere).

(Veeam offers to do this for you at the end of the installation or the first time you run it, if I remember right)

yes you are right, i already created a veeam USB recovery media

if the system broke and cannot boot, i will plug my bootable USB and point to my restore point in the NAS, and i'm done

@scottalanmiller said:

Just an FYI: formatting would always erase things, but just erasing does not format. Formatting is a specific filesystem operation. So I would use erase in a discussion like this rather than format. Because technically it erases but does not format.

yeah, it is correct, i should use erase rather than format

the entire computer backup just finished, it is 58.2 GB and the original is C+D= 113 GB

i really thank all IT pro in this topic, you are really helpful people,
thank you for your time, this topic would be a reference for me, it is full of precious information,
i appreciate your efforts guys

i think the hero of this thread is @dafyre, hahaha
you are the one who mentioned the key solution of my problem Veeam

@scottalanmiller said:

This thread is the top technical question thread in number of posts... ever. By around 160 posts!

this is because of you guys, i never see such active community, incredible

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller said:

The VEP recovery media should work for any device. It should be generic.

No it is not. It builds a unique image for each machine that includes that machines base hardware to ensure networking support when the ISO boots.

If all of your machines are the same or similar hardware, then you should be able to use a single ISO easily.

i had a feeling that the recovery media is unique per machine because during the creation it tells you that the drivers will be included in the bootable USB
so in this case i need USB per machine

yeah i see what you mean, we are the ones who created this limitation for ourselves, and the winner is the ISP
actually it is very hard to change this idea from the peoples mind

Hi guys

i wonder if putting stand by computers (they are off) in a cold server room (17 C) can damage them or not ??
today i take one computer (that was in the server room for 2 month now) and find that is not working, when i plug the power, the lamp keep blinking without anything on the screen?

i already clean it from dust (remove the CPU and clean it and the RAM and the HD, clean everything without result)

when i access server room, the metal looks wet, is this show that there is humidity right?

i go to the server room to raise the tempreture, i realize that the remote controller is missing

Hi guys

today i went to the IT Store to buy a NAS server, i found WD My Cloud EX4, i found that it is a great product and meet my need, which is a NAS (4 BAY) that can be on RAID 0,1,5 or 10
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1170#Tab2&Tab25
my need is to store 2 entire physical server into a NAS (daily backup with veeam)
so what do you think guys concerning my need and this NAS ??