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US 2016/0253244 A1Published application
Systems And Methods For Out-Of Band Backup And Restore Of Hardware Profile Information
OwnerWeijia Zhang, Jon R. Hass +1inventors
InventorsWeijia Zhang, Jon R. Hass, William C. Edwards
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Abstract
Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented for out-of-band backup and/or restore of information handling system components. Such out-of-band backup and restore operations may be performed, in one embodiment, to backup and/or restore hardware profile information such as firmware images and corresponding system configuration information.
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An information handling system, comprising:
- at least one operational storage location on the information handling system;
- and
- one or more processing devices coupled to the operational storage, the one or more processing devices being configured to receive a request from at least one of a local user or remote user for at least one of backup or restore of hardware profile information, and to respond to the received backup or restore request while UEFI BIOS is running on the one or more processing devices before booting a host operating system (OS) of the system to at least one of:
- backup the hardware profile information by transferring the hardware profile information from an operational storage location on the information handling system to a backup storage location before booting a host operating system (OS) of the system, or
- restore the hardware profile information by transferring the hardware profile information from a backup storage location to an operational storage location on the information handling system before booting the host operating system (OS) of the system.
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A method for backing up and/or restoring hardware profile information on an information handling system, the method comprising:
- receiving a request in the information handling system from at least one of a local user or remote user for at least one of backup or restore of hardware profile information on the information handling system;
- and
- using one or more processing devices of the information handling system to respond to the received backup or restore request while UEFI BIOS is running on the one or more processing devices before booting a host operating system (OS) of the system to at least one of:
- backup the hardware profile information by transferring the hardware profile information from an operational storage location on the information handling system to a backup storage location before booting a host operating system (OS), or
- restore the hardware profile information by transferring the hardware profile information from a backup storage location to an operational storage location on the information handling system before booting the host operating system (OS).
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.