Veritas™ System Recovery 21 User's Guide
- Introducing Veritas System Recovery
- Installing Veritas System Recovery
- System requirements for Veritas System Recovery
- Supported file systems, disk types, disk partition schemes, and removable media
- Feature availability in Veritas System Recovery
- About the trial version of Veritas System Recovery
- Installing Veritas System Recovery
- Uninstalling Veritas System Recovery
- System requirements for Veritas System Recovery Monitor
- Installing Veritas System Recovery Monitor
- Ensuring the recovery of your computer
- Creating a new Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Welcome Panel
- Creation Options
- Download and install Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK)
- Languages Options
- Veritas System Recovery Disk Storage Media/Destination Options
- Licensed Features Options
- Storage and Network Drivers Options
- Startup Options
- Network Options
- Setup LightsOut Restore Options
- Customizing an existing Veritas System Recovery Disk
- About restoring a computer from a remote location by using LightsOut Restore
- Testing the Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Creating a new Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Getting Started
- How to use Veritas System Recovery
- Starting Veritas System Recovery
- Configuring Veritas System Recovery default options
- Setting up default general backup options
- Improving your computer's performance during a backup
- Enabling network throttling
- Setting default options for the Windows notification area
- File types and file extension
- Removing or changing the unique name for an external drive
- Configuring default FTP settings for use with Offsite Copy
- Logging Veritas System Recovery messages
- Enabling email notifications for product (event) messages
- Setting up your first backup using Easy Setup
- Home page
- Status page
- Tasks page
- Tools page
- Advanced page
- Using Veritas System Recovery RESTful Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
- 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
- Adjusting the speed of a backup
- Stopping a backup or a recovery task
- Verifying that a backup is successful
- Viewing the properties of a backup job
- Editing backup settings
- Enabling event-triggered backups
- Editing a backup schedule
- Disabling or enabling a backup job
- Deleting backup jobs
- Adding users who can back up your computer
- Configuring access rights for users or groups
- Backing up remote computers from your computer
- Monitoring the status of your backups
- About monitoring backups
- Icons on the Home page
- Icons on the Status page
- Configuring Veritas System Recovery to send SNMP traps
- Customizing the status reporting of a drive (or file and folder backups)
- Viewing drive details
- Improving the protection level of a drive
- About using event log information to troubleshoot problems
- Monitoring the backup status of remote computers using Veritas System Recovery Monitor
- About Veritas System Recovery Monitor
- Starting Veritas System Recovery Monitor
- Icons on the Veritas System Recovery Monitor console
- Configuring Veritas System Recovery Monitor default options
- Adding a remote computer to the Computer List
- Modifying the logon credentials for the remote computers
- Removing a remote computer from the Computer List
- Viewing the backup protection status of a remote computer
- Viewing the Protection Status report
- Exploring the contents of a recovery point
- Managing backup destinations
- About backup destinations
- Differences between drive-based backups and file and folder backups
- Cleaning up old recovery points
- Deleting a recovery point set
- Deleting recovery points within a recovery point set
- Copying recovery points
- About managing file and folder backup data
- Automating the management of backup data
- Moving your backup destination
- About support of OneDrive for Business
- Managing virtual conversions
- Defining a virtual conversion job
- Running an existing virtual conversion job immediately
- Viewing the properties of a virtual conversion job
- Viewing the progress of a virtual conversion job
- Editing a virtual conversion job
- Deleting a virtual conversion job
- Running a one-time conversion of a physical recovery point to a virtual disk
- Managing cloud storage
- Direct to cloud
- Downloading OpenStorage Files
- How Offsite Copy works for cloud storage
- 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
- About the Cloud Instance Creator Utility
- Recovering files, folders, or entire drives
- About recovering lost data
- Recovering files and folders by using file and folder backup data
- Recovering files and folders
- Recovering a secondary drive
- Recovering a drive
- Exploring files and folders on your computer by using Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Recovering files and folders by using Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Recovering a computer
- About recovering a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)-based computer
- Booting a computer by using the Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Preparing to recover a computer by checking the hard disk for errors
- Recovering a computer
- Recovering a computer from a virtual disk file
- Recovering a computer with different hardware
- About using the networking tools in Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Viewing the properties of a recovery point in the Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Viewing the properties of a drive within a recovery point in the Veritas System Recovery Disk
- About the Support Utilities
- Copying a hard drive
- Using the Veritas System Recovery Granular Restore Option
- About the Veritas System Recovery Granular Restore Option
- Best practices when you create recovery points for use with the Granular Restore Option
- Starting the Granular Restore Option
- Starting Granular Restore Option and opening a specific recovery point
- Restoring a Microsoft Exchange mailbox
- Restoring a Microsoft Exchange email folder
- Restoring a Microsoft Exchange email message
- Restoring files and folders using 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
- Index
How Offsite Copy works for cloud storage
When you create or edit a backup job, you can provide an Amazon S3 storage as an offsite destination. After the backup is complete, the recovery points are copied at the offsite destination (Amazon S3 storage).
Requirements for using the Amazon S3 storage
Veritas System Recovery 21 installed.
You must create buckets before configuring the offsite destination in Veritas System Recovery. The buckets are not available for use in Veritas System Recovery if the bucket name does not comply with the bucket naming convention.
Refer to the following technote to view the bucket naming conventions:
Ensure that you have Internet connectivity and access to HTTP (Port 80) and HTTPS (Port 443).
The recovery points created during backup are stored on the cloud storage as OST (OpenStorage Technology) files. You cannot directly restore your computer using the OST files available on the Amazon S3 storage. You must first download these recovery points using the Download OpenStorage Files utility to your computer or a network location and then start the restore process.
See Downloading OpenStorage Files.
When you create or edit a backup job, you can provide a Microsoft Azure storage as an offsite destination. After the backup is complete, the recovery points are copied at the offsite destination (Microsoft Azure storage).
Requirements for using the Microsoft Azure storage
Veritas System Recovery 21 installed.
A Microsoft Azure portal account. You should also have a "Storage Account" and a "Container" associated with that "Storage Account.
Note:
To understand more about how to configure a "Storage Account" in Azure portal, see the following link:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/documentation/articles/storage-create-storage-account/
A Microsoft Azure storage account, and at least one storage access key (Primary access key or Secondary access key).
Ensure that the Blob Service containers are already created. Containers represent a logical unit of storage on the cloud-based storage device.
Note:
As a best practice, specific containers should be created to use exclusively with Veritas System Recovery.
Ensure that the container names meet the following Veritas System Recovery requirements:
Container names can contain lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens.
Containers names cannot begin with a hyphen.
Note:
The containers are not available for use in Veritas System Recovery if the container names do not comply with the container naming convention.
The recovery points created during backup are stored on the cloud storage as OST (OpenStorage Technology) files. You cannot directly restore your computer using the OST files available on the Microsoft Azure storage. You must first download these recovery points using the Download OpenStorage Files utility to your computer or a network location and then start the restore process.
See Downloading OpenStorage Files.
When you create or edit a backup job, you can provide a Generic S3 or Veritas Access storage as an offsite destination. After the backup is complete, the recovery points are copied at the offsite destination (Generic S3 or Veritas Access storage).
Requirements for using the Generic S3 or Veritas Access storage
Veritas System Recovery 21 or later installed.
Requirements as per the Generic S3 or Veritas Access storage that you have configured.
The recovery points created during backup are stored on the cloud storage as OST (OpenStorage Technology) files. You cannot directly restore your computer using the OST files available on the Generic S3 or Veritas Access storage. You must first download these recovery points using the Download OpenStorage Files utility to your computer or a network location and then start the restore process.
See Downloading OpenStorage Files.
See About S3-Compatible Cloud Storage.
See About Veritas System Recovery supporting Veritas Access.