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
Supported file systems, disk types, disk partition schemes, and removable media
Veritas System Recovery supports the following file systems, disk types, disk partition schemes, and removable media:
Table: File systems, disk types, disk partition schemes, and removable media
Support | Description |
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Supported file systems | Veritas System Recovery supports the following file systems:
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Supported disk types and disk partition schemes | Veritas System Recovery supports the following disk types and disk partition schemes:
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Removable media | Veritas System Recovery also lets you save recovery points to most USB devices, 1394 FireWire devices, RDX, REV, Jaz, Zip drives, and magneto-optical devices. |
The following table lists the drive types, Bytes per Sector value, Bytes per Physical Sector value and whether or not Veritas System Recovery supports them.
Table: Drive types and support
Bytes per Sector value | Bytes per Physical Sector value | Drive type | Supported Yes/No |
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4096 | 4096 | 4K native | Yes |
512 | 4096 | Advanced Format (also known as 512E) | Yes |
512 | 512 | 512-byte native | Yes |
4096 | 512 | 4K emulation | Yes |
See System requirements for Veritas System Recovery.
Note:
Refer to the following notes:
Veritas System Recovery 16 and earlier support drives less than 16TB.
Veritas System Recovery 16.0.1 and later support drives less than 32TB.