Grass Valley M-Series iVDR Service Manual User Manual
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6 July 2004
M-Series Service Manual
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Replacing an iVDR with saved media
If the problem on the faulty iVDR does not prevent you from making backups, you
should be able to completely recover your media and configurations. For example, if
the problem is a faulty Codec board, all media and configurations should still be intact
and available on the faulty iVDR. By making backups you can transfer media and
configurations to the replacement iVDR.
If the problem prevents you from making backups, complete recovery is unlikely. For
example, if the problem is a failed system drive, the iVDR is inoperable and the Media
File System is lost. However, if you still have access to a recent backup of the Media
File System, you can likely recover part of your media, as explained in the following
procedure. If you do not have a backup of the Media File System, media recovery is
impossible and you must use
“Replacing an iVDR without saved media” on page 49
.
To save media and configurations as you replace a faulty iVDR, do the following:
1. If the problem on the faulty iVDR prevents you from making backup files, make
sure the replacement iVDR can access a previously made Media File System
backup file. To attempt to recover part of your media from this previous backup
file, skip ahead to step 3.
2. If the problem on the faulty iVDR does not prevent you from making backup files,
do the following:
• While in Normal mode, backup your current configurations as a saved
configuration file. Refer to the M-Series User Manual for instructions on using
Configuration Manager.
• Restart into Storage Maintenance mode and backup the media file system. Refer
“Backing up the media file system” on page 63
Save the backup files to the system drive’s second partition, then copy the files to
a network location or onto CD-RW media so that the files will be accessible from
the replacement iVDR.
3. Power off the faulty iVDR. If the replacement iVDR has been powered on, power
it off as well.
4. Keeping the drives in the same order, remove the media drives from the faulty
iVDR and install them in the replacement iVDR. See
5. Power on the replacement iVDR. You should see error messages appear as
AppCenter opens, since the replacement iVDR now has foreign media disks. You
can ignore these error messages. AppCenter opens with only partial functionality
because of the error conditions.
If you see no error messages and the Storage Utility opens automatically, it means
the iVDR is in Storage Maintenance mode. In this case you can skip ahead to step
7.
6. From AppCenter, select
System | Shutdown
. Then in the Shutdown dialog select
Storage Maintenance
and
OK
. The iVDR restarts into Storage Maintenance mode
and the Storage Utility opens automatically.
7. Work through the tasks necessary to access your backup file or files, such as the
following:
• If you saved the backup files onto CD-RW media, insert the media into the