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 to create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
To create an AMI, you must first convert your recovery points to a .vhdx/.vhd format. Ensure that all your drives are backed up including hidden drives. After you convert the .sv2i files to .vhdx/.vhd files either using Veritas System Recovery or the PowerShell script, you can create the AMI.
To run the CREATE_AMI_IN_AWS script.
- Run the CREATE_AMI_IN_AWS script from the PowerShell command line in the administrator mode.
A message is displayed asking if you want to use a .vhdx or .vhd file for creating the AMI.
- Press Y to use a .vhdx format or press N or any other key to use a .vhd format.
Note:
The steps to create an AMI remain the same whether you press Y for .vhdx files or N for .vhd files.
- Do one of the following.
Press Y if you already have a .vhdx/.vhd file
Do the following in the order listed:
Press 1 to upload the .vhdx/.vhd to an Amazon S3 bucket before creating the AMI or press 2 if the .vhdx/.vhd file is already available in an Amazon S3 bucket.
If you pressed 1, enter the path where the .vhdx/.vhd file is located.
Note:
If the .vhdx/.vhd file is available at a network location, enter the credentials of the network path.
You must maintain separate folders for the virtual hard disks of each computer. When you create the AMI, all .vhdx/.vhd files for one computer are used. If .vhdx/.vhd files are not maintained separately, when creating an AMI, files belonging to different computers may get used together.
If you pressed 2, continue from step 3.
Type the Amazon account details.
Type the Access Key.
Type Secret Key.
Press 1 to create a new bucket or press 2 for an existing bucket.
If you pressed 1, type a name for the new bucket, the region name, and the name of the folder to be created to upload the .vhdx/.vhd files.
For more information about AWS regions, refer to the following link:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html
If you pressed 2, type the name of the existing bucket, the region of the bucket, and the name of the folder to upload the .vhdx/.vhd files.
After you enter all the inputs, the vhdx/vhd files are uploaded, the AMI is created, and you can view the created AMI in the AWS account.
Press N if you do not have a .vhdx/.vhd file.
Do the following in the order listed:
Type the path of the .sv2i file, which is to be converted to a .vhdx/.vhd format.
Note:
If the .sv2i file is on a network location, type the credentials of the network path.
Type the path where you want to the converted .vhdx/.vhd file to be placed.
Note:
If the .vhdx/.vhd file is to be created a network location, type the credentials of the network path.
You must maintain separate folders for the virtual hard disks of each computer. When you create the AMI, all .vhdx/.vhd files for one computer are used. If .vhdx/.vhd files are not maintained separately, when creating an AMI, files belonging to different computers may get used together.
Type the Amazon account details.
Type the Access Key.
Type the Secret Key.
Press 1 to create a new Amazon S3 bucket or press 2 for an existing bucket.
If you pressed 1, type a name for the new bucket, the region name, and the name of the folder to be created to upload the .vhdx/.vhd files.
For more information about AWS regions, refer to the following link:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html
If you pressed 2, type the name of the existing bucket, the region of the bucket, and the name of the folder to upload the .vhdx/.vhd files.
After you enter all the inputs, the .sv2i file is converted to .vhdx/.vhd file, the .vhdx/.vhd files are uploaded. The AMI is created, and you can view the created AMI in the AWS account.
When the script creates the AMI, an is generated. The AMI is then created with an and listed on the Amazon account. You can right-click the AMI and launch the EC2 instance.
See About creation of Amazon Machine Image (AMI) in Amazon from Veritas System Recovery backups.