Veritas™ System Recovery 21 User's Guide
- Introducing Veritas System Recovery
- Installing Veritas System Recovery
- Installing Veritas System Recovery
- Ensuring the recovery of your computer
- Creating a new Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Creation Options
- Storage and Network Drivers Options
- Customizing an existing Veritas System Recovery Disk
- About restoring a computer from a remote location by using LightsOut Restore
- Creating a new Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Getting Started
- Setting up default general backup options
- File types and file extension
- Best practices for backing up your data
- Backing up entire drives
- Backing up files and folders
- Running and managing backup jobs
- Running an existing backup job immediately
- Backing up remote computers from your computer
- Monitoring the status of your backups
- About monitoring backups
- Monitoring the backup status of remote computers using Veritas System Recovery Monitor
- Adding a remote computer to the Computer List
- Exploring the contents of a recovery point
- Managing backup destinations
- About managing file and folder backup data
- Managing virtual conversions
- Managing cloud storage
- Direct to cloud
- About creation of Amazon Machine Image (AMI) in Amazon from Veritas System Recovery backups
- About S3-Compatible Cloud Storage
- About Veritas System Recovery supporting Veritas Access
- Recovering files, folders, or entire drives
- Recovering a computer
- Booting a computer by using the Veritas System Recovery Disk
- About using the networking tools in Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Copying a hard drive
- Using the Veritas System Recovery Granular Restore Option
- Best practices when you create recovery points for use with the Granular Restore Option
- Appendix A. Backing up databases using Veritas System Recovery
- Appendix B. Backing up Active Directory
- Appendix C. Backing up Microsoft virtual environments
- Appendix D. Using Veritas System Recovery 21 and Windows Server Core
Automating the management of backup data
Veritas System Recovery can monitor your backup storage space and notify you when it gets full. It can also automatically delete old recovery points and older versions of files from file and folder backups exceeding the threshold. If you do not specify a threshold, Veritas System Recovery notifies you when the disk reaches 90 percent of its total capacity.
You can also manage your file and folder backup data by limiting the number of versions of backup files that you keep. This kind of maintenance can significantly reduce the amount of disk space that is required, especially if the file size is large.
To automate the management of backup data
- On the Tasks menu, click Manage Backup Destination.
- On the Manage Backup Destination dialog box, click Settings.
- Select Limit file versions for file and folder backups, and then type a number between 1 and 99.
- Select Monitor disk space usage for backup storage. Drag the slider to limit the total amount of disk space that can be used for your backup data.
- Do one of the following:
Select Warn me when backup storage exceeds threshold if you only want to be notified when the storage size is exceeded, but you do not want any action to be taken.
Select Automatically optimize storage if you want Veritas System Recovery to manage the backup data automatically, without prompting you.
Veritas System Recovery automatically deletes the old recovery points, and limits file versions to remain within the threshold that you set.
- Select Delay changes until next backup if you do not want to apply your changes until the next backup runs.
- Click OK.