Zebra 4Sight XV7 with Windows comes with the Windows 11 IoT Enterprise operating system pre-installed. RAID configuration is also supported, which allows your system to have some backup redundancy. This chapter will discuss how to backup, restore, and recover your operating system, as well as how to configure your hard drives to use RAID.
Rescue Utility for System Backup and Recovery
To backup and restore Zebra 4Sight XV7 units the Zebra 4Sight XV7 Rescue utility and the Zebra 4Sight XV7 Windows IoT Enterprise configuration utility (OSConfig) come pre-installed; these utilities allow you to:
Capture for deployment. Creates a master image of your Zebra 4Sight XV7 unit’s operating system partition so that you can deploy the unit’s operating system, applications, and user settings, to multiple Zebra 4Sight XV7 units. The capture process creates a rescue USB key with a capture-for-deployment backup .wim file. When you deploy the image, Out-Of-Box-Experience customization steps are also performed, which assign a new unique ID to the new unit.
OS backup. Creates a backup image of your Zebra 4Sight XV7 unit’s operating system partition and saves it to a USB key or specified drive. This process makes a backup (.wim) file similar to the capture-for-deployment backup, except it retains the unit’s ID. This backup is only useful to restore the same unit from which the original backup was made, because it will also restore the unit’s unique ID. When creating this type of backup, you have the option to simply save the backup file, or to create a rescue USB key (that is, to also configure the key with other files necessary for installing the backup image).
Restore. Reverts Zebra 4Sight XV7 to its factory default settings, restores an OS backup, or restores a capture-for-deployment backup.
The default mass storage device shipped with your Zebra 4Sight XV7 (M.2 SSD) has 4 partitions. The partitions are labeled as follows:
RECOVERY. This partition is not assigned a drive letter.
OS. This partition is assigned to the C: drive.
SYSTEM. This partition is not assigned a drive letter.
MSR. This partition is not assigned a drive letter.
This chapter only deals with the RECOVERY and OS partitions.
The RECOVERY partition houses the Zebra 4Sight XV7 Rescue utility and factory image, and does not get reformatted if you restore an OS backup .wim file from the Zebra Rescue utility console. However, if you use a rescue USB key with a capture-for-deployment backup .wim file (W11XV7.wim), then both the RECOVERY and SYSTEM partitions are reformatted and restored to their original factory-configured state provided by Zebra.
To perform any of the backup, capture, or restore tasks, you must access your Zebra 4Sight XV7 directly since remote desktop is not available in the recovery environment. To access the unit directly, connect a display device, keyboard, and mouse to your Zebra 4Sight XV7. For information, see the Connecting peripheral devices section.
For the latest information on backup, capture, and restore features, see the OSreleasenotes.txt file, found on the C: drive of your Zebra 4Sight XV7.
Configuration Utility Interface
To launch the configuration utility, open the run dialog by holding the Windows key + R. Type OSConfig.exe in the run dialog and press enter to launch the utility. Be aware that the configuration utility only runs with administrator privileges. Once the configuration utility is open, the interface will display a number of tabs that are used to confirm various settings and information. The tabs that are available in the configuration utility are listed below:
Global settings
: This tab displays essential information such as software version #, Windows version #, Aurora Imaging library version #, Zebra production version, Zebra BIOS version, Windows product ID, computer name, IP address, Windows defender status, Window update status, Mitigate protection status, and Automatic popup status.
Write Filter
: This tab provides options for the Unified Write Filter (UWF). After making your selection to change the status of the UWF, the unit must be rebooted for the changes to apply. When this feature is enabled, all writes directed to disk C: are redirected to RAM, the recycling bin is turned off, and the paging file is disabled. When the UWF is enabled, saving large files on your hard drive may overfill the UWF RAM overlay, which is why it is advised to create an extra partition for holding large files to avoid possible RAM overfill when UWF is enabled. If the overlay gets filled to its maximum capacity, the system will display an error (low memory) and the system will restart. To see which folders are not protected by the UWF, refer to the OSreleasenotes.txt file.
Capture OS
: This tab provides the option to backup the operating system. This is useful for creating a general backup, or a backup with specific customization already applied to your unit.
Languages
: This tab provides option to add or remove additional display languages.
SSD
: This tab provides options about the wear on your SSD drive. In this tab you can see the % of wear on your SSD drive and enable statistics to be logged about your drive on a daily basis.
EULA
: This tab displays the Microsoft Software License Terms and the Zebra Software License Agreement.
GigE Vision
: This tab provides options to configure and optimize the ports that you use to connect to your GigE Vision device.
Others
: This tab provides options to create a factory restore USB key. There are also options to change settings such as time zone, date, time. The Recommended actions window is available in this tab as well.
