About the recovery image process

An image of the GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server system drive is provided with the product package. You can restore the GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server from this image. This simplifies the process of rebuilding a system in a disaster recovery scenario.

When you receive your GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server new from the factory, you receive a system-specific image for that particular GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server. This factory image is stored on a bootable USB Recovery Flash Drive located inside the front panel of the hardware. Also on the Recovery Flash Drive is the Acronis True Image software necessary to create and restore an image.

After your GV I/O Live Ingest and Playout Server is installed, configured, and running in your system environment, you should create new recovery disk images for the machine to capture settings changed from default. These “first birthday” images are the baseline recovery image for the machine in its life in your facility. There is enough space on the Recovery Flash Drive to store the first birthday image along with the factory image.

You should likewise create new recovery disk images after completing any process that changes system software or data, such as a software upgrade. In this way you retain the ability to restore to a recent “last known good” state.