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
About creation of Amazon Machine Image (AMI) in Amazon from Veritas System Recovery backups
You can now create an Amazon Machine Images (AMI) in Amazon cloud using Veritas System Recovery recovery points and view the status of an existing AMI. Veritas System Recovery provides two PowerShell scripts using which you can create AMI in Amazon cloud and view the status of an existing AMI. You can use the AMI to launch an EC2 instance in cloud.
CREATE_AMI_IN_AWS: Script for creating an AMI
QUERY_AMI_CREATION_STATUS: Script for viewing status of an AMI
During a disaster recovery situation you can restore your machine based on the available recovery points. Using this feature you can bring up a virtual machine using the created AMI in Amazon Web Services.
Prerequisites to create an AMI in Amazon:
You must have a machine that has Veritas System Recovery 21 or later installed on it, and a backup job that ran successfully to create a .sv2i file. The recovery points must be in a local folder or a network location.
The AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user credential that you use must have the administrator role assigned.
The machine where you are running the AMI script must have AWS SDK and AWSCLI installed.
If you have Veritas System Recovery 21 or earlier installed on your computer, the PowerShell supports conversion to .vhdx or .vhd files from backups that are not password protected. You can create an AMI from any existing .vhdx or .vhd files.
This feature is not available from the Veritas System Recovery user interface and only available using the PowerShell scripts.
To create an AMI, system reserved information is required. Ensure that you create the system drive backup with system reserved partition along with the data drive backup.
If you have .sv2i files stored in an Amazon S3 bucket or any other cloud storage, you must first download the files to a local or network destination or to the machine on which the script is running. You cannot specify a cloud destination to select the .sv2i files.
You must use recovery points with a .vhdx or .vhd format. If you have a .sv2i file, you must first convert the file to a .vhdx or .vhd format. You can do this in two ways:
Convert the recovery point to a .vhdx or .vhd format using Veritas System Recovery virtual conversion job.
Use a PowerShell command to convert the recovery points to a .vhdx or .vhd format.
If you want to convert recovery points to a .vhdx or .vhd format, Veritas System Recovery supports conversion of recovery points that are less than 2 terabytes.
The CREATE_AMI_IN_AWS script only supports a .vhdx or .vhd format and does not support the .vmdk format. If you convert the recovery points from Veritas System Recovery, ensure that the file format is .vhdx or .vhd as these are the only formats supported to create an AMI.