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Maintenance
There are a number of maintenance and support procedures that are performed to safeguard the proper operation of your switcher, as well as backup your setups.
SDPE Reconfiguration for Switcher Type
To Configure the SDPE for Carbonite
To configure the SDPE blade for Carbonite you must use the Acuity® menus.

Maintenance
There are a number of maintenance and support procedures that are performed to safeguard the proper operation of your switcher, as well as backup your setups.
- Backup and Restore
- Configuration Files
- Force Panel Upgrade
- Media-Store Permissions
- Dusting Mode
- Factory Default Settings
- Locking Menus
- Power Supply Replacement
- SDPE Installation
- SDPE Reconfiguration for Switcher Type
  - To Configure the SDPE for Carbonite
    To configure the SDPE blade for Carbonite you must use the Acuity® menus.
  - To Configure the SDPE for Acuity®
    To configure the SDPE blade for Acuity® you must use the Carbonite DashBoard menus.
- SDPE Slot
  The SDPE blades can be moved to different slots in the Ultrix™ chassis or assigned different ME numbers.
- SDPE Reboot
  Manually reboot an SDPE blade.

To Configure the SDPE for Carbonite

To configure the SDPE blade for Carbonite you must use the Acuity® menus.

Press HOME > Setup > Installation > More > More > SDPE Configuration > Set Carbonite Mode.
Press Convert to Carbonite for the SDPE blade you want to convert to Carbonite.

Important: The ME and resources provided by that SDPE blade will no longer be available to the switcher. You may have to update your switcher configuration.

Important: This process cannot be undone from Acuity®. If you convert an SDPE blade to Carbonite you must connect to the Carbonite switcher on the SDPE blade to convert it back to Acuity®.
Click Yes to confirm the conversion.

The SDPE blade reboots as a Carbonite switcher with the default IP address. The version of Carbonite depends on the software that was last installed on the SDPE blade.