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 the Cloud Instance Creator Utility
The Cloud Instance Creator Utility is a tool that can be used to create a cloud instance for S3 compatible and Veritas Access cloud storage environments. Any cloud providers that use S3 protocol, can create the cloud instance.
You can use this cloud instance when you create backups using Veritas System Recovery. In the OpenStorage Destination dialog box select S3 as the server type and enter the details of the created cloud instance that can be used to access S3 compatible and Veritas Access cloud storage.
There are three functions that you can perform with this utility.
Creating a cloud instance
Viewing a cloud instance
Deleting a cloud instance
CloudInstance [-addinstance] [-getinstance] [-deleteinstance] [-help]
The Cloud Instance Creator Utility is located at the following path:
<VSR Installation folder>/Agent folder
Synopsis
Creates a new cloud instance.
CloudInstance.exe -addinstance
CloudInstance Name: CloudInstance0001
CloudInstance Provider: compatible-with-s3
CloudInstance ServiceHost: s3.yourendpoint.com
SSL Supported <0/1/2>: 2
HTTP Port: 80
HTTPS Port: 443
Instance CloudInstance0001 added successfully
Where
CloudInstance Name
Specifies the name of the new cloud instance. Cloud instance name can contain letters, numbers, and dashes (or hyphens). It cannot begin with a dash (or a hyphen).
CloudInstance Provider
Specifies the provider of the cloud instance.
CloudInstance ServiceHost
Specifies the cloud server endpoint address.
SSL Supported <0/1/2>
Specifies the SSL mode that is used for communication with the cloud instance.
0: Disabled
1: AuthenticationOnly
2: Full
HTTP Port
Specifies the http port of the cloud instance.
HTTPS Port
Specifies the https port of the cloud instance.
Gets all of the instances created using the utility.
CloudInstance.exe -getinstance
Removes a instance created using the utility.
CloudInstance.exe -deleteinstance
Instance Name: CloudInstance0001
Deletion successful for instance: CloudInstance0001
Displays help on how to use CloudInstance.exe.
CloudInstance.exe -help
Usage CloudInstance [-addinstance] [-getinstance] [-deleteinstance] [-help]
-addinstance : add a custom cloud instance
-getinstance : get custom cloud instance
-deleteinstance : delete custom cloud instance
-help : Display this help message
See About S3-Compatible Cloud Storage.
See Using S3-Compatible Cloud Storage in Veritas System Recovery .
See About Veritas System Recovery supporting Veritas Access.
See Using Veritas Access Storage in Veritas System Recovery .