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
The components of Veritas System Recovery
Veritas System Recovery includes two key components: the program itself, and the Veritas System Recovery Disk.
Table: Key product components
Key component | Description |
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Veritas System Recovery program (user interface) | The Veritas System Recovery program lets you define, schedule, and run backups of your computer. When you run a backup, recovery points of your computer are created. You can then use the recovery points to recover your entire computer, or individual drives, files, and folders. The Veritas System Recovery also lets you do the following:
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Veritas System Recovery Disk | Microsoft no longer allows redistribution of WinPE. Starting from Veritas System Recovery 16, Veritas no longer ships the Veritas System Recovery Disk with the product. A new utility is provided using which you can create a Veritas System Recovery Disk with the latest Windows operating system. The Veritas System Recovery Disk is used to start your computer in the recovery environment. If your computer's operating system fails, use the Veritas System Recovery Disk to recover your system drive (the drive where your operating system is installed). See Defining a drive-based backup. |