Paragon Rescue Kit User Guide

Paragon Rescue Kit™ for Mac OS X

User Manual

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CONTENTS

Introduction.............................................................................................................................3

Features Overview...................................................................................................................4

Key Features.....................................................................................................................................................4

Supported File Systems ...................................................................................................................................4

Supported Media..............................................................................................................................................4

Getting Started ........................................................................................................................5

System Requirements......................................................................................................................................5

Launching the Recovery Environment..........................................................................................................5

Creating Backup Images.................................................................................................................................7

Restoring System and Data.............................................................................................................................9

Transferring Data..........................................................................................................................................11

Linux Network Configuration......................................................................................................................14

Typical Scenarios...................................................................................................................17

Backup Scenarios...........................................................................................................................................17

Recovery Scenarios........................................................................................................................................18

Network Configuration Scenarios................................................................................................................20

Glossary..................................................................................................................................22

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Introduction

Paragon Rescue Kit™ for Mac OS X is a Linux based bootable recovery environment that gives you an opportunity to get access to the hard disk for maintenance or recovery purposes in case of its malfunction, a virus attack, or a system failure. Its primary objective is to avoid possible data loss by transferring valuable information from a failed hard disk to some other destination, like a removable (CD/DVD, USB, FireWire, etc.) drive or a network share. Besides, it can be used as a real alternative to the Mac OS X native disk imaging tools. With its help you can make a backup of your system or data partition, thus providing the ability to restore it at any time you need.

A highly intelligent program engine together with handy comprehensive wizards for major operations, make the job with Paragon Rescue Kit for Mac OS X easy and efficient.

This guide will help you use Paragon Rescue Kit for Mac OS X at full and tackle many of the technical issues that might arise in the process.

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Features Overview

This chapter dwells upon key benefits and technical highlights of the product.

Key Features

Well let us list some of the product key features:

 Installation free recovery environment (Linux based bootable CD/DVD) to get access to the hard

disk for maintenance or recovery purposes in case of its malfunction, a virus attack, or a system failure.

 Comprehensive wizards to simplify even the most complex operations.  Simple backup/restore facilities to establish a reliable data protection system.  Support of major present day techniques to store backup images:

- Backup to local mounted/unmounted (without drive letter assigned) partitions;

- Backup to a network drive to stand a better chance of success in case of a hard disk failure;

- Backup to external media (CD/DVD) to guarantee a high level of data protection as long as the backup media is kept secure;

 Data transfer facilities to retrieve information you need from a local disk of any file system, a

network share, removable media (CD/DVD, USB, FireWire, Flash, etc.) or even backup images and then copy it to the required destination as easy and convenient as possible.

 Network configuration facilities to establish a network connection under Linux, thus allowing

transmission of data on the net.

Supported File Systems

Paragon Rescue Kit for Mac OS X provides support of major file systems presented on the market today:

 Full read/write access to FAT16/FAT32 partitions.  Full read/write access to NTFS (Basic and all five types of Dynamic Disks). Compressed NTFS files

are also supported.

 Full read/write access to Ext2FS/Ext3FS and Linux Swap partitions.  Limited read/write access to Apple HFS+ partitions.

Unfortunately, support of non-Roman characters for the HFS+ file system is unavailable at the moment. The company is about to implement it in the nearest future.

Supported Media

 Support of both MBR and GPT hard disks (up to 1,5 TB tested)  IDE, SCSI and SATA hard disks  CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and also DVD-R, DVD+R double layer

discs

 FireWire (i.e. IEEE1394), USB 1.0, USB 2.0 hard disks, ZIP® and Jazz® disks  PC card storage devices (MBR and GPT flash memory, etc.)

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Getting Started

In this chapter you will find all the information necessary to get the product ready to use.

System Requirements

To use Paragon Rescue Kit for Mac OS X on your computer (it doesn’t matter what operating system is installed), make sure that it meets the following minimum system requirements:

 X86-compatible processor  256 MB of RAM  SVGA-compatible monitor  Mouse (recommended)

There may be additional requirements if you want to use advanced features:

 Network card is required to transfer data on the net  Recordable CD/DVD drive is needed to burn data to compact disks  Removable media can also be used to save data.

To know more on the subject, please consult the Supported Media chapter.

Launching the Recovery Environment

You can launch the recovery environment, i.e. actually a Linux based bootable CD/DVD, by taking the following steps:

1. Insert the disk into a CD/DVD drive;

2. Reboot the computer;

3. Press and hold the Alt button until the Apple boot menu starts;

4. Select a CD/DVD device to boot from

As a result of the above mentioned actions, you should see a boot menu of the recovery environment on the screen.

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On the left there is a list of all available operations, the bulk of which are wizard driven. To minimize the possibility of making any mistake, you can get on the right an easy to catch description on any operation from the list just by selecting it.

So, the boot menu contains the following commands:

 Backup Wizard to make a backup image of a system or data partition and then place it to the

required destination;

 Simple Restore Wizard to restore a system or data partition with a previously made backup image;  File Transfer Wizard retrieve data from a local disk of any file system, a network share, removable

media (CD/DVD, USB, FireWire, Flash, etc.) or even backup images and then copy it to the required destination;

 Network Configurator to establish a network connection under Linux, thus allowing transmission

of data on the net;

If you are going to use network resources, first launch Network Configurator to establish a network connection.

 Log Saver to collect and send the necessary log files to the Technical Support Team;  View the mounted partitions to display a list of all mounted partitions;

Drive letters are assigned to partitions the way it is done in DOS, i.e. one after another, primary partitions at first. Thus mounted partitions may have different drive letters from your operating system.

 Reboot the computer;  Power off the computer.

To move within the menu, please use the mouse or the arrow keys of the computer keyboard. Select the required command and then press Enter or double click on it to launch.

While working with the bootable media you might experience some inconvenience caused by possible video artifacts. It is just a result of changing video modes and in no way will affect the program functionality. If this is the case, please wait a bit and everything will be OK.

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Creating Backup Images

The most reliable way of data protection for the hard disk is the ability to create archive duplications. A modern backup archive uses the so-called image, a snapshot of the whole disk system or its separate partitions. It not only includes the contents of all user-made files, but additionally contains the exact structure of directories, information about file allocation, file attributes and other related data. Thus it enables to recover not only the on-disk data but an operating system as well.

Only separate partitions of MBR and GPT hard disks are allowed to back up at the moment.

Starting

Launch the recovery environment and then click the Backup Wizard item of the boot menu. After the

mentioned action the welcome page of the wizard will be displayed.

Settings

The Backup Wizard enables to configure the settings and then start the operation in accordance with the entered parameters. Here you can set the following parameters:

 The object to back up. Only separate partitions of MBR and GPT hard disks are allowed to

back up at the moment, so select a hard disk from the popup menu at the top left corner of the window and then choose a partition you need to back up.

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Backup of the GPT service partition (also called EFI) is unavailable, but don’t worry, it’s not used by Apple at the moment.

 Backup destination. You are free to save backup archives to local or network drives, to

physical partitions (without drive letters assigned), to any removable media (USB, FireWire, Flash, etc.) or burn them to CD/DVD. So select a destination you need by taking the estimated archive size and available space on the backup destination into account.

Select the Save data to local drives or physical partitions option and then choose a mapped network drive to save a backup image on the net. You can establish a network connection and map a network drive with the help of Network Configurator.

 Name and location of the resulted image. Provide a file name for the new image and its

exact location. The program automatically offers an easy to understand name, which can anyway be modified.

The program automatically calculates size of the future archive and informs the user about space available on the selected destination.

 Archive Comment. The user can add some additional description to the archive that will

later help to distinguish it from the others.

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